Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Would it be useful to have a mailing list dedicated for communications > between us (upstream developers) and various downstream packagers and > distributors? > > I suppose this basically boils down to whether downstream > packagers/distributors are happy to follow this list (or users@, which > we occasionally use for minor announcements / calls for testing), or > whether a channel of lower volume than those two but higher than > announce@ would be useful. > > Thoughts?
I think it's totally unreasonable to expect downstream people to follow dev@ or users@. I think we should consider putting minor announcements and (infrequent, targeted) calls for testing on announce@, to solve that part. Does then following announce@ and the security channel(s) not work well enough for distributors? Is it too hard or non-obvious for them to communicate back to us perhaps, or any other problems you have been thinking of? I have heard it said that it works best to designate a mailing list/channel/group for a given *topic* rather than for a given set of *people*. Perhaps you could re-frame your idea in those terms? - Julian
