proposal: mailing list reorganization
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Thu Jan 11 04:49:30 UTC 2007
Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev at redhat.com) said:
> > * fedora-devel -- For devel discussion. The "old" fedora-devel-list
> > became quite noise and we want to avoid that with the new list. Thus the
> > plan is to restrict it to well known open-source or project contributors
> > and make it moderated for the rest of the world. Support questions
> > regarding devel stuff are off topic here.
>
> I question the assertion behind this. Fedora-devel-list is rather
> quiet, considering the size of the project.
>
> > * fedora-devel-discuss -- We need an open devel list for users as
> > fedora-devel is restricted. Support questions regarding devel stuff are
> > on topic here, too.
>
> Very dubious idea, but ok.
>
> My main problem with this proposal is that you're trying to recreate
> the current system of fedora-maintainers and fedora-devel-list
> with no change at all.
This is my concern as well - I'd rather just repurpose as:
-maintainers: Announcements (freezes, policy changes, outages, etc.), and
related followup discussion.
-devel: devel discussions.
Bill
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