At sometime Jaromil wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Dec 2017, KatolaZ wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 01:21:01PM +0100, Evilham wrote:
> >
> > [cut]
> >
> > >
> > > While such an announcement on devuan-dev is not too bad; due to
> > > the current stage, this may ve been more appropriately
> > > communicated on the IRC channel :-D.
> > > Having this sort of email (even on devuan-dev) somehow implies
> > > the thing is ready or mostly ready.
> > > Just as a silly note for the future, because announcements are
> > > not a trivial thing and badly done can do lots of harm.
> > >
> >
> > totally agree :\
>
> I don't agree.
>
> For me IRC is not a reliable way to communicate, but Email is.
>
> Also many people here do not check IRC.

Email is way more reliable than IRC. Every now and then my IRC
connection gets reset due to a timeout. Then I'll miss what ever
happens there until my IRC client automatically rejoins. Or worse, I
get a power blackout for hours, days, the longest in recent memory was
a week. That's hours of IRC messages I'll miss. Email at least tries a
bit harder to retry transmission, and eventually bounces if it can't get
through. The bounce tells the sender that the email was not received.

For the "you have to do something, and do it soonish" type
announcements, the more reliable the method of delivery, the better.
Using multiple methods is good though.