<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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.<br><br></div>Best,<br></div>Dominic<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Jö Fahlke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jorrit@jorrit.de" target="_blank">jorrit@jorrit.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Am Wed, 21. Jun 2017, 15:31:02 +0200 schrieb Steffen Müthing:<br>
> > - dune-announce used to be a feed of the news items that appear on our<br>
> > website. There is currently nothing feeding that list, and I'd like that<br>
> > changed.<br>
> ><br>
> > The best place to do that is probably the CI/CD pipeline for dune-website,<br>
> > which is currently used only for checking the website[^1]. The tricky part<br>
> > here is to avoid sending the same announcement twice, which means we need to<br>
> > keep state -- but the CI system is at the moment running in docker<br>
> > containers, which makes it hard to keep state. Suggestions welcome.<br>
> ><br>
> > [^1]: Actual deployment of the website is handled by a deamon running in<br>
> > Heidelberg, which is only loosely connected to the gitlab CI/CD system.<br>
><br>
> my suggestion: Drop it. Does anybody **really** need it?<br>
<br>
</span>And do you also have a suggestion on how to keep up to date on the news items<br>
on the homepage? I don't think polling the homepage manually in regular<br>
intervals is a feasible option for anyone.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Jö.<br>
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