Le mercredi 15 juin 2011 à 08:33 -0400, Manjusha Joshi a écrit : > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Brett Viren <[email protected]> wrote: > Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]> writes: > > > == Proposal == > > > > I would like to propose the following: > > * move all packaging related discussions to > > [email protected] > > * use [email protected] only for user oriented > discussions > > * make sure that all the commit mails are sent on > > [email protected] > > > > Any comments / opinions ? > > > FWIW, your proposal is more in line with what I thought > debian-science > was about when I joined. I haven't, personally, minded seeing > packaging > related discussions go by but I do think the two types of > discussions > would benefit from having their own venues. > +1 > Benefit is we also get updates about packages and that is really > useful for us. > As Linux user cannot remain only user, need to do system admin level > work also for scientific packages. Well, I do not consider that as always true. Software like R or Scilab can be used by normal users who do not care about packaging issues (or admin work).
> Second thing is, after making 2 separate list will there be increase > in the user level queries? At present there are hardly user related > queries. I might be wrong but I feel like (it is the main idea behind this proposal) that [email protected] is too geek and too packaging oriented for regular users. If I was a regular user of scientific software, I would have un-subscribed myself a long time ago since the ratio scientific/packaging questions is very low. Sylvestre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
