On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 16:15 +0300, Boris Pek wrote: > > > I propose to change the Maintainer: for mpich from "Debian > > > Science > > > Maintainers" which is an Alioth list, to [email protected] > > > .org. > > > > > > Any comments or objections? > > > > I would prefer to have all Debian Science package-related e-mails > > on a > > single list. Given the sort of traffic that we have on debian- > > science > > (mostly packaging-related already), I would vote for using > > debian-science as the maintainer address. > > There are too huge amount of packages related to Debian Science team. > And as > far as I know the most of maintainers are interested only in limited > amount of > them. Thus all extra emails will be perceived as a flood. People who > do not > have enough free time to sort such flood manually just will stop > usage of this > mailing list. > > I vote for not mixing of ML for communication with team members with > ML for > automatic emails related to packaging activity. >
I agree with Boris, the maintenance emails would make the discussion threads almost unreadable. Could use mail filters, but the same problem applies to the web interface where you can't use a filter. A separate list is cleaner. Anyone who wants to subscribe to both still can of course. Drew
