Release notes subscription and email notification

[likidu]

Suggest add region information.

Or put entry point into Clinic.

Phrase 2

• [ ] Divide EN / CN subscribers
• [ ] Add unsubscribe and manage subscription features
• [ ] Take care of the feedback on the email template

[likidu]

We may use SendGrid for email service.

[lilin90]

Question to consider: how to handle multiple languages — release notes in Chinese, English, Japanese?

[likidu]

Extra request: subscribe to certain LTS and it's upcoming patching information.

[lilin90]

Considerations about the extra request of subscribing to a certain LTS version.

• If users subscribe to a version, and some time later, they upgrade to a later LTS version, then they need to subscribe to the later version again.
• It's relatively complex to implement.
• Whether there are enough needs from real customers or users.

I talked with the demand-side, and we reached an agreement that we don't support subscribing to a certain version now.

[likidu]

474 is to add the subscription form to save the emails to SendGrid contact list which we can later manually trigger or program to send emails to all the emails in the list.

[likidu]

For actual email sending, we can consider use either SendGrid or GApp to send it out.