Hi folks, I believe the existing debian-ports setup (as an exploder pointing to all the different port lists) is not working well at all. It's a confusing setup to many people, which leads to lots of cross-list noise that's probably not warranted. Some of the traffic is also clearly meant to be discussing the debian-ports setup itself rather than individual ports, and that's also off-topic for those ports that are in the main archive. So, I propose:
* Remove the confusion: turn debian-ports into a separate *normal* mailing list, announce it and let people subscribe to it as they see fit normally. This would be specifically for "discussions about ports.debian.org and architectures hosted there". * Explicitly do *not* add another exploder to replace the old address: instead, *if* we want something to cover this use case, add a new list that interested people can subscribe to. Maybe "debian-cross-ports" or "debian-architectures" or something. Please feel free to suggest a better name! If such a list were to be set up, we could/should encourage existing architecture porters to sign up there too. Thoughts? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140905173910.gf17...@einval.com
