Proposal: Automate fedora-maintainers subscriptions

[Christopher Stone]

On 3/20/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Christopher Stone wrote:
> > On 3/20/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >> Why does games SIG require a separate mailing list?
> >
> > For the same reason any SIG should have their own list.
>
> That is not a good reason consider no SIG except games has its own
> mailing list.

I wouldn't say that.

Fedora-perl-devel-list -> perl SIG
Fedora-music-list -> music and media production SIG
Fedora-security-list -> security SIG

There are probably others which you could consider SIGs like mentors,
fr, women etc.  I think if we just relabeled these as fedora-SIG-foo
it would make finding special interest topics easier.

>
>     Rename the
> > lists fedora-SIG-foo for all I care, but these lists should exist.
> > Using something like [games] in message headers on fedora-maintainers
> > or something is just going to get lost in all the noise.
> >
> > Infact, while we are on the discussion, can we please add a
> > fedora-SIG-PHP mailing list.
>
> If it is packaging details it should be in fedora-packaging list. Other
> details could be in fedora-devel list. In other words what do you
> discuss in fedora-games list that doesnt fit into any existing other
> Fedora lists?

Stuff that only interests people who are interested in games.  Game
specific questions, making a games spin, etc.  Basically people who
are interested in games can peruse our archives and easily find
discussions related to games.

>
> Every SIG creating their own lists would essentially reduce the
> visibility and participation of contributors and users.

No, there are main lists which everyone subscribes to such as
packaging and maintainers, and then there are the SIG lists you can
subscribe to if you have an interested in a particular topic.

For example, let people interested in PHP discuss some packaging issue
related to PHP amongst themselves and when they are satisfied they can
then bring the discussion over to a main list like packaging for
inclusion in the standards.

Creating SIG lists does not reduce visibility as long as such lists
are named as SIG lists, that is why I propose to rename all lists that
have a special interest to fedora-SIG-*.