On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 19:58, Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 02:16:12PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 04:51, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: >>> >>> 1. Mailing list >>> I suggested to use debian-multime...@lists.debian.org as general >>> discussion list (for instance for discussion like this) for a Debian >>> Multimedia Blend and for an entry point of users to talk to the package >>> developers. This list has turned out to be a good success in other >>> Blends. >>> The reason to not to do so was that this list is used as >>> packaging list of DeMudi packages. >>> List Archive of August: 8 mails >>> List Archive of September: 1 SPAM mail >>> List Archive of October: 1 mail >>> In short: The mailing list is de facto free and really using it >>> might be a way to actively be notified about packages which are >>> not yet moved under pkg-multimedia-maintainers maintenance. >> >> So far Jonas is (I believe) the only one who opposes this split. I'm in >> favor, and if we do this we should announce it to devel-announce and >> -announce so that we can get some users there. What do others think? > > Hmm. Now that I reflect on it again, I am not so strongly against it, > actually. I see the point of better serving our users, but cannot help > being sceptical still - so please help convince me: > > Bugreports have been mentioned as an example of inappropriate mails for such > list, right? So what is then on-topic? Is it for visions and metadesign - > like a multimedia-specific d-project@ ? Or is it more of a > d-user-multimedia@ list?
I would think of it more of a d-user-multimedia type of list than d-project. > > When we (apparently) lack the time already to do the technical work we would > like to, then where should the ressources come from to manage and care for > such a list? Or do we simply provide the space and leave the Multimedia > users to discuss with themselves? I would try to chip in when possible (it is much easier to answer a quick email than actually do work :p). But I would expect that, if there are multimedia users out there, soon they will start helping each other there. -- 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
