On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 03:43:50PM +0000, Simon Kenyon wrote: > we have two mailing lists > > dev and users > > maybe it is time to go for some finer granularity > > install - issues installing the software > announce - annoucement of new releases > bugs - posting of bugs/fixes > hardware - issues with hardware > discuss - general discussion/fluff > software - issues running the software > > comments please
Some suggest people just tag their posts -- alas, that doesn't have a history or working well in lists I have been on. Even splits don't have a great history. This may be too many divisions. However, to me one desirable split is between "platform" issues and "Mythtv" issues. I would say that the majority of traffic on this list is actually platform issues generated by people trying to bring up MythTV -- hardware, drivers, what to buy, linux configuration and so on. These issues tend to come fast and furious when creating a system, and diminish once the system is running. The other list would be for the MythTV core technologies, Myth itself, and perhaps some of the platform items that are largely only used because of myth (perhaps lirc, datadirect) Another way to make this split that is not as clear but might be clearer for users would be "Initial build" vs. "operating". This is going to amount to the same division, though the operating list would now officially discuss platform issues people encountered after running for a while. However, you need to set it up so that people who can answer new questions still read the initial build list
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