On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 06:49:22PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
We have lists dedicated to announcement:
announce@lists.o.o (+2000 subscribers) security-announce@lists.o.o (almost 3000 subscribers)
This is probably the wrong list to mention it, but, HyperKitty (the public face of the mail list archiver) shows openSUSE Announce as inactive: "announce@lists.opensuse.org The Announcements from the openSUSE Project 0 participants 0 discussions" Clicking through from the list's name says "No discussions this month (yet).". Clicking "All threads" shows 1034 discussions, and clicking on May's archive shows the last two threads HyperKitty is aware of. I'm guessing the indexer has died or not been scheduled to run in 5 weeks - we've had quite a few similar problems since migrating to mailman3/HyperKitty/Postorious & Friends at work. Although stats & signs-of-life are shown for other openSUSE lists. openSUSE Security Announce is 38th "Most popular" - the default sort order, of 40 "active" lists, yet has 75 discussions shown in the last 30 days, compared to 1, 1, 7, 1 & 1 for the four lists above it. Not sure how Popular is weighted, compared to "Most active". In terms of "discovering" the lists. Imagining myself as a potential new user distro-hopping, I went to www.opensuse.org, found the tiny "Mailing Lists" link near the bottom and clicked through hoping/expecting to be able to skim-read the archives. I appreciate that assumes quite a bit of prior knowledge already. I also appreciate there's no single-way to begin interacting with the openSUSE Project in all its guises, but if it is thought that an over-arching low-volume high-quality announcement channel is a mainstay then it could be promoted and curated a bit better. Full disclosure, I've never subscribed to openSUSE announce before, but might have been on predecessor SuSE & SUSE lists. Daniel