Ok, seems like there are enough people surfing the same wavelength, so I’ll draft a starting point for some more concrete guidelines that I feel would be useful here. Feel free to discuss.
- Announcements can be for a new release or a major update to an existing release. The point here is to notify people when there is something significantly new and both count towards this.
- One thread per software release (or major update)
- Some initial banter to guide people in the right direction for the release is fine. Technical questions, especially later, should be directed towards ROS Answers. Design questions/feature requests should be directed to the issue trackers or if large enough, open a separate category here on discourse.
- Expressing emoticons or brief opinions about the release is fine.
- Binary releases only
I’m not strong on 5) but releasing binaries on the OSRF build farm isn’t a difficult process, and it’s a small step that goes a long way to making things easy for users. We should encourage that!
Statistics/thread monitoring - I’d leave this to later. Just get things rolling first and see what pans out.