proposal: mailing list reorganization

[Karsten Wade]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:25 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> === fedora-dsco-list ===
> 
> Not much traffic and it seems the Fedora Documentation Steering
> Committee agreeds to close this list.

Again, sorry about the confusion, we've put aside this issue until after
elections; if FDSCo decides to shut down the list, we'll take care of
the details.

> === fedora-project ===

+1  Beautiful idea.

> === fedora-cvs-commits ===
> 
> All commits should go here, but separated into topics  (web, docs, F7,
> devel, ...), similar how we do it for how we do for
> fedora-packaging-announce

Hmm, interesting.  This is going to increase mail traffic and new
contributor complexity, and to what advantage?

Right now there is fedora-docs-commits for all that goes into /cvs/docs,
and that is all that cvsdocs users are required to subscribe to.  This
proposal increases CVS commit traffic to our mailboxes by 100-fold?
1000-fold?  

With projects have a lower technical experience to get involved, such as
the Documentation Project, asking people to get on a firehose list
(fedora-cvs-commits) and customize a rule to only get the traffic
from /cvs/docs ... it seems like a step in the wrong direction, away
from making it easier and more pleasant to be a contributor.

Heck, I fear the websieve rule I have to figure out to get this work.
That's an hour of my time I'd like to spend elsewhere. :)

> === Others ===
> 
> Some people questioned the needs for these lists.

>  * fedora-websites

Maybe under a new name, but there is an implicit agreement that
Infrastructure /= Web developers.  fedora-websites serves as the central
spot for the project that needs to formally come alive, i.e., Fedora Web
Team or something.  Similar gang of people perhaps, but very different
scopes.

There are my spare nickels worth of thoughts,

- Karsten
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