[Dune-devel] [Dune] Regarding the Mailinglists dune-bugs and dune-announce

[Dominic Kempf]

In the last years, people always wrote an email to the mailing list of
similar or identical content when they published a news item. I do not
think that is that much work. I oppose the proposed way of highjacking CI
though - it introduces more moving parts and violates the CI principle of
independence of the running environment (the runner needs privileged access
to mail servers etc.) - for very small actual benefit.

Best,
Dominic

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Jö Fahlke <jorrit at jorrit.de> wrote:

> Am Wed, 21. Jun 2017, 15:31:02 +0200 schrieb Steffen Müthing:
> > > - dune-announce used to be a feed of the news items that appear on our
> > >  website.  There is currently nothing feeding that list, and I'd like
> that
> > >  changed.
> > >
> > >  The best place to do that is probably the CI/CD pipeline for
> dune-website,
> > >  which is currently used only for checking the website[^1].  The
> tricky part
> > >  here is to avoid sending the same announcement twice, which means we
> need to
> > >  keep state -- but the CI system is at the moment running in docker
> > >  containers, which makes it hard to keep state.  Suggestions welcome.
> > >
> > > [^1]: Actual deployment of the website is handled by a deamon running
> in
> > >      Heidelberg, which is only loosely connected to the gitlab CI/CD
> system.
> >
> > my suggestion: Drop it. Does anybody **really** need it?
>
> And do you also have a suggestion on how to keep up to date on the news
> items
> on the homepage?  I don't think polling the homepage manually in regular
> intervals is a feasible option for anyone.
>
> Regards,
> Jö.
>
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