On 17/08/10 11:58, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 20:15:40 (CEST), Andreas Tille wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:10:45AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >>> Perhaps? My biggest concern is that with 3 lists, it becomes more and >>> more challenging to decide to which list to post. Replies to -vcs mails >>> currently go to -maintainers because of the reply-to, so I guess that >>> would remain. But what about discussion mails on -maintainers, that are >>> supposed to go to debian-multime...@l.d.o? This overhead of >>> meta-discussion about a topic being ontopic or offtopic is the price I >>> see for having a third list. (it could be mitigated with a proper and >>> clear charter, I imagine). >> >> For me the maintainers list is way to noisy and I guess a lot of users >> will see it the same way. Moreover I'm afraid that just because of the >> name of the list as well as the location users will not even consider >> subscribing this list (as I would never have done if I would not >> explicitely asked to raise the Blends topic here). IMHO we have no >> proper place to discuss the issues of multimedia users inside Debian and >> that's a pity because we might loose users (and potential developers) >> because of this. > > I've had a small private followup conversation with Andreas about > this. He basically came up with the suggestion to turn > debian-multime...@lists.debian.org from a *development* oriented mailing > list to a *user* focused list. This way users can share their thoughts, > concerns and kudos.
I thought this was the idea the whole time? > > While I don't think that this will significantly lower the amount of > traffic (well, we actually widen the set of topics), I still think that > it will be benefitial for pkg-multimedia, because: > > - we get more contact with our actual users > - we learn what's pressing and bugging them > - we hopefully get more potential and real contributors, ideally even > new developers > > > WDYT? Every time I think about it, I like it more. I think we should do that. And announce it to the world via d-d-a. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
