Do people really announce new releases just over email and things like mail-archive or? Those mail archives always looked strange to me for some unknown reason.
For going on 20 years, yes. I even add hashes for each package (i.e. the tarball & platform installers) to the end of the message and sign it. I find it odd and inconvenient when projects don't announce releases via email.
If there is a mailing list for the software, why not send releases information over there? It makes a lot of sense to me.
I'm also subscribed to several, and some software also announce patches or security related stuff on mail lists.
I see mail as a low barrier of entry (every developer has an email address).
What else would you use to notify interested people and be able to receive feedback at the same time?
Sure I think it makes sense to have this on the forum as well as a shadow post or something, I posted this https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/haproxy-1-8-officially-relea... will see if willy would like to keep this and perhaps create an announcemet category. Ultimately his call, but there has been a lot of 1.8 discussion on the forum lately.
