[OpenSER-Users] [OpenSER-Devel] Survey for new mailing list

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Hi all,

First of all, thanks to everybody who took part to this survey.

Based on the feedback I received from the lists, here is a short resume 
of the survey:
    - such a mailing list is a useful tool (exclusively for stable branches)
    - the implementation of the list must go hand-in-hand with a more 
often minor releasing : minor releases will be for major bugs and will 
happen once per months maybe; the list will advertise all fixes!

Still to work on:
    - should be one way mailing list (standard subscriber will only 
received without being able to post) ???
    - who should push the update emails ??
    - what is the lowest severity  to be pushed on the list - I guess 
docs /typos might not be considered fixes ;).

I will start investigating the technical means of putting this list into 
practice.

Best regards,
Bogdan



Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I the last year there was a good progress on the project policy 
> regarding releases (major and minor). Still, from my experience as booth 
> developer and user of openser, I feel the need for way to promptly and 
> focused inform the users of openser about the fixes, especially critical 
> fixes, that require immediate update.
>
> Many project have lists where you can subscribe in order to get 
> notification for critical bug or security fixes. Currently, for openser, 
> if you are not subscribed on devel list and if you are not "good" enough 
> in "decrypting" the commit logs, you may miss important fixes you may 
> want to update.
>
> I think is our duty as project to inform the users about the discovered 
> flows in the stable versions. My suggestion is to create a new mailing 
> list where, who is interested, will receive notifications when something 
> critical was fixed in the stable versions of openser.
>
> Maybe a new list (like "alerts at lists.openser.org") where a developer, 
> after making the fix, can issue (if considered important) an update 
> alert for the interested people :
>     Severity:
>     Affected services/modules:
>     Description:
>     Rev number where the fix is available:
>     How to update: ?
>
>
>
> I come to this as right now I'm working at two major fixes in the stable 
> versions affecting two important serviced - user location and 
> accounting. And I bet a lot of people will be interested in this in 
> order to update their installations.
>
> Please let me know your thoughts on this.
>
> Best regards,
> Bogdan
>
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