I'm in favor of the old design because I think it's important to havw a list which can be used to make announcements about important issues that all porters should be aware of.
It's not really that mails going to debian-ports@ appear that often. PS: Excuse my quoting style, currently on mobile. Adrian > On Jul 22, 2015, at 7:04 PM, Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 05:38:17PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:40:20PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:51:29PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 07:01:00PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >>>>> Alexander Wirt dixit: >>>>> >>>>>> Could you please (technically) summarize what needs to be done from >>>>>> listmaster side? >>>>> >>>>> 1. Remove whatever debian-po...@lists.debian.org is right now >>>>> >>>>> 2. Create a new debian-po...@lists.debian.org mailing list which >>>>> works just like the other regular lists >>>>> >>>>> 3. Announce the new debian-po...@lists.debian.org so that people >>>>> can subscribe to it; document that there is no longer >>>>> an address to reach *all* ports but that people should >>>>> eMail the individual ports’ lists (and cross-post if >>>>> needed, but only to the amount needed), and that the >>>>> new debian-po...@lists.debian.org instead is a mailing list for >>>>> discussion about >>>>> a) debian-ports.org infrastructure >>>>> b) porting Debian in general >>>>> c) questions related to setting up a Debian port, >>>>> including wanna-build, buildd, etc. >> >> That seems like a bad idea to me, tbh. There will be people who won't >> notice that the meaning of debian-ports@ has changed, and who will try >> to use it with its old meaning. >> >> If there are problems with the current meaning of debian-ports, can't we >> just retire the old alias and create a list under a different name? > > Is there much point to that? I've not heard anybody at all speak up in > favour of the existing behaviour. If anybody does use try to use it > that way in future, the new list will most likely be the best place > for their mail to go... > > -- > Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com > "I used to be the first kid on the block wanting a cranial implant, > now I want to be the first with a cranial firewall. " -- Charlie Stross > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150722170456.gc5...@einval.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/a3f2133d-cea2-42d5-a4d3-5dacfe6ec...@physik.fu-berlin.de
