On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:
> Chet Ramey wrote: > > Clark J. Wang wrote: > > > Chet Ramey wrote: > > > I just created help-b...@gnu.org <mailto:help-b...@gnu.org>. I > hope > > > that it becomes the list where > > > folks ask questions about bash and shell programming. Please > socialize > > > its existence and subscribe if you like. > > > > > > So the "About bug-bash" description should be updated accordingly. > > > > Maybe, but I don't admin that list, and it's not attached to the bash > > project on Savannah. > > Hmm... That's interesting. It isn't attached to Savannah. I will > try to figure out why not. > > In the meantime this is what I changed the description of bug-bash to > say. The last paragraph saying "There are no other GNU mailing lists > or gnUSENET newsgroups for BASH." has been removed. The last two > paragraphs in the below were added to replace it. > > This list distributes, to the active maintainers of BASH (the Bourne > Again SHell), bug reports and fixes for, and suggestions for > improvements in BASH. User discussion of BASH also occurs here. > My understanding is Chet wants "User discussion of BASH" to go to help-b...@gnu.org so I think "User discussion of BASH also occurs here." should be removed from here. Or people will be confused which list they should post to. > Always report the version number of the operating system, hardware, > and bash (flag -version on startup or check the variable $BASH_VERSION > in a running bash). > > The help-b...@gnu.org is a different list for discussion of bash and > shell programming. > > General questions and discussion about GNU utilities may also be > conducted on help-gnu-ut...@gnu.org. > > And in a similar way I added the following description to help-bash. > > Bash is the GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell. This list is for > asking questions about bash and shell programming. Also available > is htlp-gnu-ut...@gnu.org for general questions about the shell > utilities. > > Any comments? > > Bob > >
