This list isn't working out. Or, why do we have fedora-devel and fedora-maintainers

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Tue Sep 4 20:13:28 UTC 2007


On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:05:58 -0400
Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:

> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:33:56 -0400
> > Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:29:43 +0100
> >> "Jonathan Underwood" <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > In recent weeks a lot of mailing list traffic I would have expected to
> >> > come to this list has gone to fedora-devel. People seem confused as to
> >> > what should be discussed where wrt to these two lists. Heck, in recent
> >> > weeks, it's not clear to me. Can we either get a lot more disciplined
> >> > about pointing out when people are using the wrong list or (this would
> >> > be my choice) kill off fedora-maintainers.
> >> 
> >> I'm +1 for killing -maintainers.  Now that we have
> >> fedora-devel-announce people can, if they wish, not get all the "noise"
> >> of fedora-devel and instead just get the announcements.  Since
> >> fedora-devel-announce postings go to fedora-devel-list as well, you
> >> don't have to subscribe to yet another announce list if you don't want
> >> to.
> > 
> > +1 to killing it.
> > 
> > josh
> > 
> 
> 
> Apparently, asking this list was the wrong way to get things done.  How 
> do we really do this?  Does this need to be proposed to some group? 
> Does this need to come up for vote at some meeting?  How do we actually 
> cut the life support here?

FESCo would be my best guess.

josh




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