# Replacing news-for-maintainers

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacing-news-for-maintainers/133>\
**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")\
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**Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/replacing-news-for-maintainers/133/11 "2023-08-17T08:48:22Z")

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> [@mariolenz](#):
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> Who do you think should be allowed to publish news for maintainers? The core team and the steering committee?

> [@Leo](#):
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> Maybe `news-for-maintainers` could be a (albeit a bit long) tag in the #News & Announcements category, but that category is moderated and we can’t have un-moderated tags.

Bring these two together - you **can** restrict the use of a tag to specific groups. For example, only the Community Team can use the #official tag right now, to mark official events. So, we _could_ create a tag for this and give the rights to use it to certain groups (or make a new group, if needed).

We can then tell maintainers “hey, you should set this tag to Watched in [your preferences](https://forum.ansible.com/my/preferences/tracking)” so they get notifications appropriately. Adding #collections seems fair too.

> [@gotmax23](#):
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> Can we just make the #News & Announcements open to all SC and core team members?

This is something we need to discuss more widely, I’ll make a new topic for this. Right now it’s only available to our team but that was always a placeholder - we need to set expectations here.

> [@gotmax23](#):
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> I assume Discourse also has the ability to make the category open to all but moderated or to move topics from other places if we need to.

It does. Although I’m unclear if you get a notification for a moved topic. We should test that 😛

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