<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On Dec 16, 2013, at 8:32 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <<a href="mailto:jyavenard@gmail.com">jyavenard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">I have to say that I found that out when you sent your first mail in</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">this thread :)</span></blockquote></div><br><div>I thought there was a shadow developer-only list but I guess not.</div><div><br></div><div>To take one last kick I'm not saying a newsletter with fancy fonts and usa today graphics, just statements to put context around the individual commits. For example, when the project moved from qt3 to qt4 there was a post saying things were going to get bumpy so stay away for X amount of time. That was good communication. When the log file naming scheme was changed there was the vaguest of mentions in a single commit comment which went unnoticed until the subsequent release broke all the packagers' logrotate scripts and much gnashing and griping ensued. That was bad communication.</div><div><br></div><div>- George</div></body></html>