Re: Beta4 release announcement

On 08/02/2010 05:07 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> Selena wrote:
>> Ok, so the announce message was approved prematurely, after
>> I sent an email asking folks not to.
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> Still don't see any such message, which by tradition is sent well
> before any post to announce.
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>> I sent the message asking for the message to not be approved
>> to -www. Is there a better forum?
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> That's a good place, but another one idea is to send another message to
> - -announce itself. I see those from time to time from other
> people (e.g. "please don't approve the earlier message I just sent")
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> Josh Berkus wrote:
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>> Not really, and besides people approving messages to -announce should
>> know not to approve a release message without checking on it. I think
>> we need to find out who approved that and take them off approvals for
>> -announce permanently.
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> Wow, overreact much? It's only a beta announcement. I approved it because
> it was in the queue and there was no "please don't approve this upcoming message"
> email sent. If you want to take away my announce "privs", go ahead. I guess
> as a core member you have the authoritah.

I agree - revoking moderation privileges for approving a valid message
there with no "don't do that yet" attached on any list seems completely
wrong(are we going to revoke commit provs from every commiter who ever
commited something that has a bug?). I would actually say that it is
good that we have active list moderators...

Stefan