On 11/23/2012 12:17 PM, Carnë Draug wrote: > Hi everyone > > I'm proposing moving the current Octave Forge mailing list > (octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net) to the same server as as the ones > from Octave core. My suggestion is to have the following octave > related mailing lists: > > * maintain...@octave.org - same as now, discussion of development of Octave > core > * fo...@octave.org - new mailing list for discussion of development of > Octave Forge
Wasn't there some discussion about changing the name "forge" because of confusion with SourceForge? What about Agora? Should that have it's own mail list? > * h...@octave.org - mailing list for discussion of any help related to > Octave (packages included) How much activity does the help list get? What is it primarily for? For newer users needing help with language? Help for compiling? Just asking questions here as a means to review the current situation. Dan > > Note that I'm moving all help stuff to h...@octave.org, so most of the > Octave Forge threads would now be done in octave help. Their subjects > overlap too much to make sense keep them separated (the only > separation is whether one of the suggestion involves the use of an OF > package). Things such as, "how can I use the butter function to design > a low pass filter?" would now belong to help and not to the forge > mailing list. The new forge mailing list would be for discussion of > forge development issues (the core equivalent to maintainers). > > Another reason I propose this change is that octave-dev is misleading, > specially for people submitting stuff from Nabble who see the > following http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Octave-f1599824.subapps.html > when starting a new thread. If we would make a change to fix this, it > would force subscribers having to subscribe again and maybe change > mail client settings. We might as well propose a better arrangement. > > Other reasons: > * some e-mails are sent for more than one mailing list. If the same > mailman server is handling them, this should prevent people from > receiving 2 e-mails with the same subject. > * at the bottom of each e-mail from the Octave Forge mailing list > there's a add (some longer than others). This move would remove them > since they are added by SourceForge and we have no control over it. > > How I propose to do the merging: if no one opposes to this, move all > current subscribers of the Octave Forge mailing list, to both forge > and help (this can be done automatically, subscribers should only > receive an e-mail to confirm). Those who were on it for the help can > unsubscribe from forge, and those who were on it for the development > can unsubscribe from help. I'll send an e-mail to the mailing list > when such change takes place with instructions on how to unsubscribe > (and also suggest to instead change configuration to receive a daily > digest of the other rather than unsubscribe because there's too many > individual e-mails). > > Carnë ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
