On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Ühel kenal päeval, L, 07.01.2017 kell 14:18, kirjutas Rich Freeman: >> >> Not all replies to gentoo-dev-announce should go to gentoo-dev. Some >> belong on gentoo-project, or maybe even gentoo-nfp or some other less >> common list. Hence the need to set a reply-to. > > 1) It is called gentoo-DEV-announce; there is gentoo-announce for the > other stuff already.
Actually, gentoo-dev-announce is completely appropriate for things like Council meeting agenda notices (where discussion goes on -project), or elections, and so on. Not all of it is purely development-related. > > Thanks for the history lesson. It is interesting you know that stuff > about that this was on -core prior to -dev-announce, considering you > became a developer in December 2007, while gentoo-dev-announce was > created in July 2007 and the last rites have went there since then. > (And I have sent last rites since early 2007 at least). Though I'm > pretty sure this information about last rites to -core is wrong, but my > memory fades and my old -core is archived up somewhere offline :D > Lastrites were on -dev previously I believe. Many years ago over-use of -core was one of our larger hot-button topics, and a lot of effort was made to move this sort of traffic elsewhere. A lot of it pre-dates my time on the Council. I don't personally have archives of what was on -core prior to becoming a dev, but there had been plenty of discussion around it in general and of course correct mailing list topics was a subject for new dev quizzes and such way back then as well. Gentoo tends to have flares of drama every couple of years and there had been a bit of a changing of the guard right before I became a dev, though I was fairly involved well before then as an AT and general user (think Duncan, who goes back probably about as far, perhaps further). As with today a lot gets said in private that doesn't make it onto the lists, so list archives only really tell part of the story, though again as with today you can read a lot of it between the lines. -- Rich
