[pygtk] announcement policy

[Yann Leboulanger]

Alessandro Dentella wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 06:19:31PM +0100, Yann Leboulanger wrote:
>> John Finlay a écrit :
>>> I'm disappointed that I appear to be the only one on this list that 
>>> finds these announcements objectionable. And contrary to speculation I 
> 
> I don't find announcement on PyGTK addons objectionable and surely not just
> becouse I'm amoung those who send these announcement every now and then, but
> becouse I like to be informed on what's moving aroung the pygtk world and I
> happened to use software that was advertized on this list.
> 
> The subject ANN makes it so easy to skip if you are not interested...
> 
> And we are talking about 3% of the traffic, including announcement of
> PyGTK/Pygobject that are not questionable and make 1/4 of the announcements.
> 
> To be even more clear, I would rather prefer if announcement stayed in this
> same list. 
> 
> 
> 
> PyGUI on the other hand is not an addon to pygtk.

It's 3% of the traffic because none of the project developpers announce
their projets here. If all projets announce their release here, it will
be 97% of the traffic