On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:08:14AM -0600, Christopher Abbey wrote:
> Yesterday, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > *) including on that page, the email addresses for the Red Hat
> > developers responsible for particular portions of the distribution, so that
> > people can communicate with them directly?
>
> eek! usually a bad idea, keep everything on the list, at least in terms of
> published contact addresses. If people want to take discussions off list
> they will, but when you publish a direct contact address you've no idea
> where it will end up.
I'm thinking of something along the lines of the kernel's MAINTAINER file.
> > *) make the member list of this list available to everyone
>
> please don't. I get enough spam as it is....
it wouldn't affect you, since you post here already, so your address is known.
but the lurkers might get a bit more spam... par for the course, really...
> > *) announcements on this list from particular maintainers, when new
> > packages are uploaded, along with changelogs and todo lists?
>
> I think that's what redhat-announce is for. Personally I dropped off that
> list when I realized that every three days I was getting an announcement
> for the x.y.nn-01, x.y.nn-02, x.y.nn-03, etc.... builds of the same
> version of the same package, but with minor little stuff
> changed... iirc the last straw was a 12kb note that a new version was put
> up because of a trivial typo in the readme. :(
That's excellent! Red Hat should be commended for being so diligent about that.
that makes a huge difference in people's ability to follow development.
> > *) start developing a set of guidelines for outside developers, that will help
> > them contribute. Perhaps coding standards, standards for bug reporting, etc.
>
> I like to think of rawhide like debian unstable... except that unstable is
> *EASY* to find... rawhide isn't.
yep
>
>
> Also, as someone else pointed out, if this list of for development *OF*
> rhl, then there needs to be a new list created for development *ON* rhl.
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