A bzr news list?

[Martin Pool]

On 28/04/2006, at 11:28 PM, Aaron Bentley wrote:

> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> William Dode wrote:
>> I think it would make the most sense to create a bzr-users list. It
>> probably would also help determine whether someone wants the detailed
>> answer, or just the "do this to make it work" answer.
>
> I somewhat like the way it is now, because many user questions produce
> technical discussion.  I think encouraging the mixing of users and
> devels is one of the things that keeps bzr moving in the right  
> direction.
>
> I guess that's my preference, but it's not a strong one.

I agree; I think even for users who don't have time to read the list  
it's good for their questions to go here (with them cc'd on  
replies).  Most questions are things that developers want to read and  
respond to.    I think the time to split is when user-oriented ("how  
do I") questions are actively cluttering the development list *and*  
there is a community of users who want to be subscribed and answer  
those questions.

There's room for some kind of news with a few posts per week,  
summarising changes without showing all of the details.  Ideally

  - anyone who wants to make a summary can post it
  - discussion comes back onto this list
  - it's easy to make ad-hoc summaries - I think a problem with  
things like Traffic is that it requires one particular person to make  
the summary each week, and it's easy for life to get in the way
  - people can subscribe just to this

There are a few possibilities:

  - a separate mailing list
  - a group blog
  - a wiki news page
  - a planet aggregator of various blogs

On the whole setting up planet.bazaar-vcs.org might be best?  We can  
include bazaar-related (or all?) articles from anyone's blog.

-- 
Martin