A few points:
A. It is important to do more than keep the wider community informed. A
large consideration is that we should make the process easy to join.
Currently, the barriers are very low. You see everything happen in real
time, just answer an email to participate. We should keep them as low as
possible.
B. While the news bot might do the trick (a good idea IMO), the ordering
matters - move the traffic *after* the news bot is online. 
C. Sometimes an [ENH] or [FIX] actually stands for a larger issue, which
should be discussed generally, not just as part of the harvest process.
Being able to send it publically allows this to happen easily.
D. The harvest list won't be as public as the squeak list unless we
automatically enroll anyone that joins the squeak list into both. 

I agree completely that we're currently seeing too much of the traffic
in squeak-dev, but there are reasons to do the scale-back gradually.

Daniel

Bert Freudenberg <bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote:
> Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, I'm against moving the process wholesale off the list. This might
> > disconnect it enough from the eyes of the community to make it hard to
> > sustain.
> 
> Don't you think a daily summary would suffice to keep the wider 
> community informed? Like "
> 
> From: Harvesting News Bot
> Subject: [HOT] New stuff on the harvesting front
> 
> Please join the efforts to improve Squeak over at the harvest list!
> Today's topics:
> 
> [FIX] Make CoffeeMaker respect import restrictions (F.O'Reigner)
> [ENH] CoffeeMaker now supports both sugar and cream (R. Sweety, 1 reply)
> [BUG] CoffeeMaker default does not add water (A. McOffee, 3 replies)
> "
> 
> > If it isn't too much trouble, I think the choice of whether any specific
> > message should be public or not should be made by the person making it.
> > So the UI should include two options (submit, submit publically), that
> > represent the new and the old list, and the archive should listen to
> > both, or both should be redirected to the archive.
> 
> More options == bad. The harvest list should be as public as squeak-dev 
> itself.
> 
> -- Bert