Hi all,
in light of recent events, we had a little get-together in #archlinux-staff to hack on an initial suggestion on guidelines for news posting. If we can agree on these, they should be added on the news posting page on archweb (and perhaps somewhere on the wiki).
The draft we came up with is this:
Every news post needs to have a corresponding draft submitted to arch-dev-public and wait for feedback for at least 24 hours unless: 1. it is urgent (and would be too late after 24 hours) 2. it is a simple --overwrite rule, or 3. there are strong reasons for the team member posting the draft to believe that it should not be visible to the public before it is announced. In this third case, the draft should be submitted to the staff@lists.archlinux.org ML instead.
Happy to hear about feedback.
Cheers, Sven
[2020-01-06 23:11:57 +0100] Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public:
Every news post needs to have a corresponding draft submitted to arch-dev-public and wait for feedback for at least 24 hours unless: 1. it is urgent (and would be too late after 24 hours) 2. it is a simple --overwrite rule, or 3. there are strong reasons for the team member posting the draft to believe that it should not be visible to the public before it is announced. In this third case, the draft should be submitted to the staff@lists.archlinux.org ML instead.
That sounds great, Sven, thank you.
I would however propose to remove rule 2. Mostly because I don't like exceptions and also because we should try our best to keep the number of such announcements to a minimum.
Cheers.
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 01:14, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public < arch-dev-public@archlinux.org> wrote:
[2020-01-06 23:11:57 +0100] Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public:
Every news post needs to have a corresponding draft submitted to arch-dev-public and wait for feedback for at least 24 hours unless: 1. it is urgent (and would be too late after 24 hours) 2. it is a simple --overwrite rule, or 3. there are strong reasons for the team member posting the draft to believe that it should not be visible to the public before it is
announced.
In this third case, the draft should be submitted to the staff@lists.archlinux.org ML instead.
That sounds great, Sven, thank you.
I would however propose to remove rule 2. Mostly because I don't like exceptions and also because we should try our best to keep the number of such announcements to a minimum.
Cheers.
-- Gaetan
Since I haven't heard any further objections or feedback on this, I'm going make a PR adding this to archweb on the news posting page:
Every news post needs to have a corresponding draft submitted to arch-dev-public and wait for feedback for at least 24 hours unless: 1. it is urgent (and would be too late after 24 hours) 2. there are strong reasons for the team member posting the draft to believe that it should not be visible to the public before it is announced. In this third case, the draft should be submitted to the staff@lists.archlinux.org ML instead.
On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 07:01, Sven-Hendrik Haase svenstaro@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 01:14, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public < arch-dev-public@archlinux.org> wrote:
[2020-01-06 23:11:57 +0100] Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-dev-public:
Every news post needs to have a corresponding draft submitted to arch-dev-public and wait for feedback for at least 24 hours unless: 1. it is urgent (and would be too late after 24 hours) 2. it is a simple --overwrite rule, or 3. there are strong reasons for the team member posting the draft to believe that it should not be visible to the public before it is
announced.
In this third case, the draft should be submitted to the staff@lists.archlinux.org ML instead.
That sounds great, Sven, thank you.
I would however propose to remove rule 2. Mostly because I don't like exceptions and also because we should try our best to keep the number of such announcements to a minimum.
Cheers.
-- Gaetan
Since I haven't heard any further objections or feedback on this, I'm going make a PR adding this to archweb on the news posting page:
Every news post needs to have a corresponding draft submitted to arch-dev-public and wait for feedback for at least 24 hours unless: 1. it is urgent (and would be too late after 24 hours) 2. there are strong reasons for the team member posting the draft to believe that it should not be visible to the public before it is announced. In this third case, the draft should be submitted to the staff@lists.archlinux.org ML instead.
Somebody made me aware privately about a typo so now the text is:
Every news post needs to have a corresponding draft submitted to arch-dev-public and wait for feedback for at least 24 hours unless: 1. it is urgent (and would be too late after 24 hours) 2. there are strong reasons for the team member posting the draft to believe that it should not be visible to the public before it is announced. In this second case, the draft should be submitted to the staff@lists.archlinux.org ML instead.
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