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Do people really announce new releases just over email and things like mail-archive or? Those mail archives always looked strange to me for some unknown reason.

• fermuch 9y ago
  If there is a mailing list for the software, why not send releases information over there? It makes a lot of sense to me. I'm also subscribed to several, and some software also announce patches or security related stuff on mail lists. I see mail as a low barrier of entry (every developer has an email address). What else would you use to notify interested people and be able to receive feedback at the same time?
  • sams99 9y ago
    Sure I think it makes sense to have this on the forum as well as a shadow post or something, I posted this https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/haproxy-1-8-officially-released-confetti-ball-fireworks/1823 https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/haproxy-1-8-officially-relea... will see if willy would like to keep this and perhaps create an announcemet category. Ultimately his call, but there has been a lot of 1.8 discussion on the forum lately.
• geraldcombs 9y ago
  For going on 20 years, yes. I even add hashes for each package (i.e. the tarball & platform installers) to the end of the message and sign it. I find it odd and inconvenient when projects don't announce releases via email.
  • stmw 9y ago
    Agree
• AdamJacobMuller 9y ago
  Not only do people do it, but not too long ago it was the ONLY way people did it.
• ci5er 9y ago
  How else would they do it?