Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:20:24 -0700:
> gentoo-dev: This list is for technical discussion, primarily between > developers, about development and development-related issues that > directly affect the tree or current projects. For now, no changes are > made to this list. ++ > gentoo-dev-announce: This is the announcement list for > development-related stuff. Now, there's two ideas for how to run the > list, that I can think of, but I'm sure there's others. > > - Make the list set reply-to to gentoo-dev and automatically copy any > messages from this list to gentoo-dev... > > - Make the list *not* set *any* reply-to, nor strip it, and allow people > to use the list to announce development-related stuff from *any* list... > For example, if I'm about to start a discussion on possible changes to > the releases, I could send a message to gentoo-dev-announce, which will > start the thread, with gentoo-releng set as the reply-to. I would be > responsible for making sure the email was also sent to gentoo-releng > myself. The latter would be nice if it would work. It might if it's restricted to dev posts, but the former may be necessary. > gentoo-projects: This list is for... what exactly? I've not really > figured that one out just yet. I know it is supposed to be pretty much > anything that doesn't fit into gentoo-dev or another project-specific > list. Am I correct here? Is this what everyone thinks this list is > supposed to be used for? My take is that if it's gentoo devel but not tech in nature, it goes there by default. The short term rule of thumb could then be post it there if in doubt whether it goes here or there, and if it's posted here and any dev complains, it goes there, regardless. (Once the current subscription snafus get worked out, I'd hope by Monday or Tuesday at the latest.) By way of example, your original thread starter could have been xposted here and there, with replies sent there, until a decision had been made. Once a decision was reached, it would be posted to announce and here and there, all three, but the pre-decision discussion would have been there save the initial xposted thread starter, keeping this list spam-free for those that aren't interested. Two posts here, the original question and decision announcement, likely > 10 posts, maybe 100 or more if it's controversial there, kept off this list. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
