Hi Joshua,
> We need to show people how to use mailing lists. I'm actually wanting > to make a youtube video explaining this...Mailings lists are still super > hard. They are not intuitive... What do you find unintuitive about them? Do you mean the patch workflow via email or general discussion via mailing list? > I've started using Gnus, because John > Wigley (current Emacs maintainer) recommended it. But it is really easy > to subscribe to a mailing list and have your inbox get flooded. I > personally can no longer use my hotmail account, because I subscribed to > emacs-devel, bug hurd, bug guix, and guix devel. My inbox was > completely flooded with emails, I was unable to unsubscribe to guix > devel, and It's really hard to filter email from a mailing list out of > your inbox. > > I'm currently able to use multiple mailing lists because I subscribe to > them via the email "+" trick. I think I'm subscribed to bug-hurd with > jbranso+bug-h...@gnu.org. And I have a rule that filters email sent to > that email address to a separate bug hurd folder. I’m subscribed to many mailing lists and I filter on the “List-Id” header. (You will also find a link to unsubscribe in the “List-Unsubscribe” header.) I found it more cumbersome to use email address tags like “+bug-hurd”. Gnus is a complex piece of software and I have to admit that despite living in Emacs I have not been able to make it work for me. I use mu4e, which makes searching and filtering of emails very easy. In fact, on the server side I only have a rule to file all mailing list emails to a separate IMAP folder. I access the mails of individual mailing lists by filtering with mu4e. My filter rule for Emacs devel, for example, looks simply like this: list:emacs-devel.gnu.org I bound that mu4e search to a bookmark so I don’t need to type it. For Guile things its (list:guile-user.gnu.org OR list:guile-devel.gnu.org OR list:bug-guile.gnu.org) and so on. I’ll gladly share more information about this set up off list. > We need to have GNU/Hurd hangouts, just like the Emacs hangouts. > I had one such hangout, but only one person showed up. I'm not > sure what free software solution we should have to do Hurd > hangouts. Maybe Google Chat is still the best solution... What do you mean by “GNU/Hurd hangouts”? > We need an easy way to have people assign code to GNU. If you live in > the U.S. you can actually use an electronic signature! We could have > software that would automate the copyright assigning process. I think the problem here is not due to a lack of automation software, but due to the fact that this is a legal process and changes thus have to be coordinated with lawyers to make sure the assignment is still considered valid. -- Ricardo