Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "A. M. Varon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Could we have a potato mailing lists? > > That's part of what debian-devel *is* for. Why would we want another > list for it?
Ben answered on _debian-devel_, but not on _debian-user_; I hope he doesn't mind my posting in both places (this discussion has been going on in both places). A.M. said (I'm paraphrasing) that casual readers of debian-user may come away thinking Debian has lots of problems, when in fact the problems discussed are mostly in the unstable (currently "potato") distribution. A.M's suggestion may have merit: a new _debian-user-unstable_ list could separate the user "bleeding edge" discussions from the stable user discussions. As Ben said, _debian-devel_ is already a place to discuss problems with unstable -- but there's lots of cruft there that's uninteresting to unstable users unless they're considering becoming developers. But if we create _debian-user-unstable_, the _debian-user_ readers would miss (would they care?) the discussions -- some of them interesting -- about changes, and might therefore be less well prepared to handle the upgrade to potato when it becomes stable. So I obviously can't make up my mind; I think we should let the _debian-user_ population decide: would you like to split the group? Here (from the http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe page) is how the above-mentioned lists are currently described: debian-user This is the main mailing list for all users and developers of Debian GNU/Linux systems. Many developers also follow the threads and step in to help every now and then. debian-devel This is the main discussion list for development topics. All developers should be subscribed to this list. As it is open to the public anyone can join the discussion.