On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Matt Fahrner wrote:
> >From the slew of messages about what "redhat-devel" should and shouldn't
> be I still could divine exactly what is and what isn't supposed to be
> here, nor could I get a clue by going to the list server. Can someone
> enumerate exactly what should be posted to this list (or point me to a
> URL that says so)? What I'm also not sure is if people are objecting to
> the content of some requests just out of principle or because it really
> is inhibiting the usefulness of the list.
People are objecting to questions about stable Red Hat releases because
this list is supposed to be devoted to discussion on rawhide, Red Hat's
work in progress for their distribution. Here are some snippits from
READEME.rawhide found in the rawhide directory on any mirrors that
mirror rawhide:
<snippit>
To solve this problem, Red Hat Software is harnassing the rapid
development model which has proven so successful for developing
individual components of the Linux operating system. This model helps
us deliver award-winning OSs, and we anticpiate that Raw Hide will
provide similar benefits. It's our hope that the feedback we receive
from the Linux development community will range from notification of
errors and omissions to valuable discussions of the technical benefit
(or lack thereof) of new features.
http://developer.redhat.com will host a web site devoted to Raw Hide,
and the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list will be the
centerpiece of discussion.
</snippit>
In essence, this list should cover things that you think should be done
differently in the next release, things you'd like to see added, and
open discussion on if these ideas are good or not.
This is NOT a tech support list for getting X application working
properly under a released version of Red Hat. That should be either
taken to redhat-list or <distro code-name>-list.
Jag
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