POLICY: Moving discussions around

Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Tue Apr 6 14:46:51 UTC 2004


At 08:28 4/6/2004, you wrote:
>OK, let's talk about lists today
>
>fedora-list: for discussions of current releases of Fedora Core
>fedora-test-list: for discussions of current test releases of FC
>
>This leaves a gap as FC2 gets released sometime in early May. FC2
>discussions then move to fedora-list, fedora-test-list becomes quiet for
>a while (till FC3 test1 emerges), and what happens to all the FC1
>discussion? Still on fedora-list?

Yes. Just like "redhat-list" where people posted questions about *any* 
stable release of Red Hat Linux, "fedora-list" is for questions about any 
stable release of Fedora Core. So when FC2 is released, both FC1 and FC2 
are valid discussion points on fedora-list. The commonality of experience 
is enough that many people benefit from having both on a single forum.

"fedora-test-list" is for questions about any test releases, but of course 
if you want to run a test release it makes little sense to run anything 
except the latest release, so discussions can focus more on specific bugs 
and issues with said release.

That being said, the community *could* decide to keep fedora-list as the 
general list for any stable Fedora Core release, then additionally create a 
yarrow-list specifically for FC1 users and another list specifically for 
FC2 users. Seemed to work fine in previous years... I was always subscribed 
to the general redhat-list and also the specific lists (shrike-list, 
valhalla-list, etc.) related to the versions I had in use.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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