discuss announce forum forward to kde-announce list

[Ben Cooksley]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 5:20 AM Heiko Becker <heiko.becker at kde.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 21 June 2023 19:08:38 CEST, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El dimecres, 21 de juny de 2023, a les 16:41:03 (CEST), Kenny Duffus va
> > escriure:
> >> On Wednesday, 21 June 2023 15:33:34 BST Jonathan Riddell wrote: ...
> >
> > Much better
>
> Indeed. IMHO, the purpose of kde-announce is to notify interested parties
> about new releases from KDE. It does so well, without any noise. And I'd
> prefer it to keep it that way, without any "why didn't you still fix my
> pet
> bug in this release" or "🎉" comments.
>

It also already has several thousand people subscribed to it, and the most
important part of an announcement channel is the audience.
We wouldn't be able to transfer their data into Discourse as that would be
using data for reasons other than what it was originally provided to us for.

It therefore will need to be a mailing list -> Discourse posting.


>
> Regards,
> Heiko
>

Thanks,
Ben
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