On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 11:53:31PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 25 May 2003 23:03:36 +0200, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm perplexed about the mailing list request about Exim. > >On one hand, exim is an important package, and there are already ample > >precedents like debian-apache, debian-ssh and debian-tetex-maint; > >but on the other hand, there's alioth.debian.org which allows for easier > >creation and maintenance of per-package mailing lists. > > Please note that the mailing list request was filed months ago - well > before alioth went into service - and that your e-mail is the first > reaction to the bug report filed. We actually discussed on the > internal exim mailing list whether to move the existing mailing list > to alioth and decided against doing so for lack of a web archive. > > Anyway, the major work on exim 4 packaging is done, the mailing list > we used because we didn't hear a single word of reaction to bug > #166357 has seen about 900 messages in four months. I seriously doubt > that a debian-exim mailing list is needed any more after the major > packaging effort has been almost completely finished. > > If Debian would like to offer mailing lists for internal projects, > response time to requests needs to be MUCH faster. At the current > state of affairs, the time spent with writing the request has been a > total waste.
Well, you could have used the bugreport as interim mailing list :))) Friendly, Sven Luther
