-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Julien BLACHE wrote: > I'd argue about that "official" thing that people have been using to > qualify d-d-a. It's an announce list for developers, by > developers. I'm not sure what's official in there. I'd tend to say > anything "official" is project communication, that effectively goes to > debian-announce.
d-d-a has 5700 subscribers [1] and is archived/mirrored around the world. Non-developers by far outnumber developers in subscribing that list. It doesn't really matter, if it's an 'officially endorsed' message from the project or not, the point is it was an 'announcement' and it was perceived as inappropriate (not only OT) by many. > I essentially wanted to set the record straight as various things have > been written about d-d-a and its purpose after Joss' post, here and > elsewhere, mistaking d-d-a for d-a. No doubt, the harm would have been bigger, if it had been posted to d-a instead. But even then some would argue that it's not so bad, because it could have been even worse... Cheers, Johannes [1] http://lists.debian.org/stats/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklKbkIACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXnZACffbM4Pekz85rTbIR0XMNrsltt o8MAn0wcI7FMr4WH/wz2HjeQwJJcSSas =UbWY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org