On May 8, 2012, at 10:57 AM, James Diebel wrote:
> I'm a user of the tz database, but not a contributor.
I would like to receive notification of when a new release
has been issued, but without receiving the messages between
contributors debating the merits of various proposed
changes. Is there a way to configure my mailing list
subscription to only receive release notifications?
The mailing list doesn't have any inherent notion of "release
notification" mail vs. other mail, so, no, there isn't a way
to configure the subscription to do that.
> If this is not possible, perhaps the subject line of a
message announcing a new release could always contain some
keywords so that I could write a mail filter to archive
non-release-announcement messages?
Currently, that's not the case, although if you look for
messages containing "code20" or "data20" in the subject line,
that would probably filter out many - but not all - of the
non-release-announcement messages (it would not filter out
discussions in followup messages unless the subject line is
changed).
> And do such new release announcements always come from
the same person? That would also help.
I'm guessing that, in the future, they'll come from Paul
Eggert (I think there was pretty much a groundswell of "yes"
in response to the proposal that he take over).
However, we might want to consider having a separate
tz-announce mailing list, for new release announcements (and
perhaps other announcements), and perhaps use Reply-To to
redirect responses to the tz list.