On Monday 07 July 2003 14:46, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Although a lot of people may end up subscribing to all the lists, > > it *would* mean that we could have more focused discussions, and > > some people who aren't active on cooker (due to high traffic) may > > be able to participate in a more focused list. > > It's just a matter of categorizing discussions. I happen to not > follow closely KDE discussions for example.
Well splitting list will have some advantages. Discussion will be more focused. The searching will be easier. And developpers will more easyly follow the list I can give the example of JMdault, who requested to be cced when discussing on apache and php. And, we cannot continue to have a growing number of contributors without having more list. Having everything in one list only add more noise. Right now, everyone can cope with it. But, in the future, this will be more and more difficult. I do not say that the scheme proposed by Buchan is the good one, but, at least, we should split server from desktop. We already have some list for separate topic. Why don't we do for the others ? At least, a general list, for subject concerning the whole distro, and some more focused list, for server, for kernel, etc. > If people can't categorize (with the subject) in cooker ML, I > don't think they will be able to select the right mailing-list to > post to. This doesn't sound right. If people can't categorise, people won't post in the right mailling list, and so, splitting is useless. But, if people can categorize, we don't need to split, and so splitting is useless. So, in either case, splitting is useless. Which show that this is not a valid reason. Even if some people can't categorise, and will cross post , the majority will be able to choose the right list. Even if we can categorise by looking at the subject, we lose time to read the subject. -- Micka�l Scherer
