Trond Arild Ydersbond <[email protected]> writes: > I wonder if two new lists could be helpful, in addition to what is planned: > > > 1. dng-oppftopic - for the rants, systemd general stuff, debian-related, > public discussions > > about Linux etc etc > 2. dng-users - for support, discussion of more special issues, toy > projects that > > are not necessarily very significant for devuan as a whole etc.
The way DNG presents itself, it suggests to be a list for pretty general discussions, including issues which are more about (software-)related policy than anything technical. In itself, this shouldn't be a problem and there was actually *a lot* more of that in the past. These are issue people may want to discuss for entirely sensible reasons and creating an open list like this with the known general direction was bound to attract them. If this is undesired, killing it off altogether and replacing it with something focussed on Devuan development and use or 'development here' 'use there' would a good idea. Regardless of this, picking a recent example, there's nothing wrong with people asking (relatively) simple questions about C programming (or others answering these questions) because they happen to work on C code for/ inspired by Devuan. In my opinion, trying to be helpful in face of such question is a much better idea than the usual 'RFTM! RTFFAQ! Go away lowly protozoon!' etc and providing people an opportunity to do so safely(!), that is, without running the risk to set of J. Random Digestive-Problem who then goes onto his usual, verbal murdering spree, might also be helpful in the long run. NB: This is a suggestion and the parody-style elements are meant to make it appear more lightweight (which probably won't work with at least some people ...). _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
