[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This suggestion could probably be sent to a number of different >departments of Debian, but it is most likely a general policy decision >on how to support your product.
No, debian-project is a more correct list. debian-policy is about *technical* policy. >I am recommending to several >distribution packagers that the newsgroup comp.os.linux.* could benefit >from a comp.os.linux.distributions.*, among which >comp.os.linux.distributions.debian would be one. You should go and campaign on the newsgroup 'news.groups' for this if you think it's a good idea; newsgroup creation isn't a matter in which distributors have any particular say. Read the FAQs first, though. >This would allow reduction of support costs at the individual packagers >while allowing some of the users to better aid in helping each other >with problems that are specific to individual distributions. Well, Debian doesn't really have support costs as such, because we are composed of volunteers. :) Your phrasing seems geared towards the commercial distributions. We already have debian-user@lists.debian.org, and various more specialized mailing lists, which are excellent user support forums; I think that duplicating effort here will just dilute the quality of mutual support. I believe other distributions have something similar. Feel free to write up an RFD for news.groups and campaign in its favour if you still think it's a good idea, though; you don't need official approval or anything like that. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
