On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:36:34 -0500 Danny Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On IRC discussion there seemed to be general consensus that gNewSense > was ready for a gnewsense-dev mailing list, since a lot of the > gnewsense-users traffic is starting to be actually user-oriented (yay > users!). \o/ > Also there are several unfortunately long threads going on about the > Lemote/MIPS development where instead of any list it's just a bunch of > individuals cc:ed; I want to avoid this for the majority of > conversations, as it's exclusionary, hard to reference, and makes it > harder for new people to get involved. This, more then the user support question, is what makes me think a -dev list would be a valid change for the project. > Would anyone have objections or alternative suggestions to the > creation of [email protected]? > > We may also want to create something like [email protected] for > discussion of only builder [1,2]; it might be useful to not have > "gnewsense" in the name as builder may eventually also be used to > create distributions based on Debian GNU/Linux that are modified in > the same way gNewSense modifies Ubuntu GNU/Linux, and those > distributions may not be named "gNewSense" to avoid user confusion. For the moment I think Builder questions can stay on -users or -dev. We never get enough to need a whole new list. > For that matter builder was originally created with the intention that > it be used to create other Ubuntu derived distributions named > something other than gNewSense, so that list could be used for those > if they appear as well. > > Disadvantage of this list would be possibly too much dilution / too > many mailing lists, so I would esp. like feedback on this one. I'd say gNS -users and -dev, no builder. > > Also, would people find something like Gmane [3] but hosted on > gnewsense.org (perhaps as a replacement for the current forums) > useful? Free Software such as mail2forum [4] provides this > functionality. My only comment here is the observation that gmane/gateways tend to break threads, and cause lots of badly formatted mail to lists (both in the 'top posting' sense, and the 'html garbage'). kk > -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian user / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
