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[Ben Harper <ben.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

We have a few important changes to announce. First, our website has a 
fresh new URL[0], look and updated content. We will keep the old site[1] 
up for a bit, but eventually it will be retired.

Also starting today, we are moving bug/ticket/issue tracking from 
Launchpad[2] to GitHub[3][4]. Instead of having only a single group for 
everything, now issues are divided up into the different repositories. 
This will make it much easier to customize notifications. We have also 
created a wishlist[5] and infrastructure[6] repositories to handle 
issues not related to a given package. It is recommend that you 'watch' 
any repositories you want notifications about issues or release 
information.  Please note, all stale Launchad bugs will get closed and 
we will continue to work active bugs till they reach their natural 
conclusion.

We will be using GitHub's release feature to log when packages get 
placed into our testing and stable package repositories. We will not 
longer be creating a new issue for each release. See redis30u 
releases[7] for an example of this process.

Finally, we are also slightly tweaking our 'policy' about our testing 
repositories. Here is our old 'policy':

For updates, we allow two weeks for feedback before pushing package into 
the stable repository. Updates that contain fixes for CVEs will get 
pushed into the stable repository sooner.

We are expanding this policy slightly to:

If no issues are reported after about two weeks, the updated
packages will be promoted to the stable repositories. Please note, we
reserve the right to promote package sooner if warranted.

The spirit of this policy is the same. We want to allow plenty of time 
for testing unless there an important reason (beyond just a CVE) to push 
the updated sooner.

Thanks,
Ben and the rest of the IUS covedev team

[0] https://ius.io
[1] https://iuscommunity.org
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ius
[3] https://github.com/iuscommunity-pkg
[4] https://github.com/iuscommunity
[5] https://github.com/iuscommunity/wishlist
[6] https://github.com/iuscommunity/infrastructure
[7] https://github.com/iuscommunity-pkg/redis30u/releases