> If a notification that a release post has reached the Hacker News Front Page is posted to the #developer-evangelism Slack channel by the "Hacker News Front Page" bot, a Developer Evangelism team member should quickly repost the message to the #product and #release-post channels to alert our Product Managers.
Why doesn't someone just update the bot to post in those channels as well?
Many of the posts that reach the front page are simply posts that contain GitLab in the URL (ex: a link to an issue from an open source project hosted on GitLab). Others are only relevant to specific teams. My team handles directing the posts to the right folks to avoid unnecessary distractions from “false positives”.
Not trying to belabor the point, and I'm sure there are nuances (especially with blog posts), but releases seem (a) likely to continue forever & (b) to use well-formed URLs.
Why doesn't someone just update the bot to post in those channels as well?