# Replacing news-for-maintainers **URL:** \ **Category:** Project Discussions\ **Tags:** community, mindshare, community-wg, collections\ **Created:** [August 15, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacing-news-for-maintainers/133 "2023-08-15T20:27:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacing-news-for-maintainers/133/43 "2023-11-15T20:44:00Z")
One downside with using the Forum over using GH is that only the poster can click the checkmarks anymore. On GH at least the ones with commit rights to that repo could also click the checkmarks. (Compare [ansible-test - Added RHEL 9.3 and deprecated RHEL 9.2 · Issue #62 · ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers/issues/62) vs. [Ansible-test - Added RHEL 9.3 and deprecated RHEL 9.2](http://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-test-added-rhel-9-3-and-deprecated-rhel-9-2/2336)) Not sure how many folks but me did that in the past though, so this probably isn’t that big a problem 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacing-news-for-maintainers/133/44 "2023-11-15T20:45:32Z")
We can make it a wiki post, but then _anyone_ can update it. However, it seems unlikely to be abused, and we get a full audit log of changes if it is. Shall we try that? ---
**Author:** ![sean\_sullivan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/sean_sullivan/32/274_2.png) [@sean\_sullivan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sean_sullivan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacing-news-for-maintainers/133/45 "2023-11-15T20:49:04Z")
Looking here, I cannot check the checkmarks on either, realize that its probably maintainers only, Who do we WANT to make the checkmarks and How do we want to track it, it could just be response from someone here on the post. ---
**Author:** ![gotmax23](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gotmax23/32/106_2.png) [@gotmax23](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gotmax23)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacing-news-for-maintainers/133/46 "2023-11-15T21:30:03Z")
I made [Ansible-test - Added RHEL 9.3 and deprecated RHEL 9.2](http://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-test-added-rhel-9-3-and-deprecated-rhel-9-2/2336) a Wiki if anyone wants to try that out. ---
**Author:** ![charlesrocket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/charlesrocket/32/986_2.png) [@charlesrocket](https://forum.ansible.com/u/charlesrocket)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacing-news-for-maintainers/133/47 "2023-12-09T18:46:24Z")
This would resolve everything if one could log in with not just github creds and subscribe for email delivery of required topics only. ---
**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacing-news-for-maintainers/133/48 "2023-12-09T21:19:05Z")
Both is possible right now. You can log in with username/password, and you can configure the forum to send you mails for specific categories and/or tags (you can also distinguish between an email for the very first post in a thread, or for all posts in a thread; and that distinction can be configured per tag/category). Go to Preferences \> Tracking to configure for what you want to get notifications (Watched / Watching First Post), and Preferences \> Emails allows to configure for what to get emails. (I’m not sure what exactly you have to set up here; I’m simply using “Mailing list mode” and adjusted the settings to get an email for everything. I like filtering in my mail program 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacing-news-for-maintainers/133/49 "2023-12-11T09:52:58Z")
Everything @felixfontein said is correct - but I would discourage the use of mailing-list mode for the vast majority of people. It’s a massive fire-hose, and most folks will be better served by tracking the categories and tags of interest to them. Also, it exponentially increases the amount of mail sent - in a previous community I had 50% of outbound mail sent to just 12 people 🙄 (in Fedora they’ve actually turned the option off entirely, but I do think there’s a use-case for a small number of dedicated people, and we have the sending capacity, at least for now) ---
**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacing-news-for-maintainers/133/50 "2023-12-11T17:44:07Z")
I’m still planning on better configuring the mail settings, but first I need to find some time to understand how exactly it works 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gwmngilfen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/gwmngilfen/32/6_2.png) [@gwmngilfen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gwmngilfen)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacing-news-for-maintainers/133/51 "2023-12-12T09:38:36Z")
Happy to help if I can. As a minimum, I can offer [this post](http://forum.ansible.com/t/guide-to-interacting-with-this-site-by-email/33) which will give you the list of non-standard headers you can filter on 😉 [Previous page](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacing-news-for-maintainers/133.md?page=2)