News Feeds
Interclue: jwm
This is how it works: we post announcements about major releases, minor releases that fix important bugs, and the major milestones of our alpha and beta releases under the tag 'news'. We also include tags for the platforms those announcements are relevant to.
You can read just the news, or even just the news as it relates to your preferred browser, by filtering the blog by tags. The same filters can apply to generating RSS or Atom feeds, so you can use those in your favourite feed reader to get just the news you're interested in.
As a bonus, we're also copying these news items to mailing lists hosted on Google Groups.
Links to the news, filtered by browser and available on the blog, via feeds or via email are available in the "News Feed" box in the blog sidebar.
How does the sign up form on the main site fit in? We figure that the people who use that form aren't interested in wonky beta versions of the add-on, so we'll email those addresses when a stable release is ready, and, at the same time, invite them to join the news list for their browser.
The test part is that this message should be seen on the 'news' and 'firefox-news' lists, but not the others.
[firefox][1], [news][2]
[1]: http://blog.interclue.com/tag/firefox
[2]: http://blog.interclue.com/tag/news