On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 05:10:18PM +0200, Alex Bligh wrote: > > > On 25 Jul 2017, at 15:27, Wouter Verhelst <w...@uter.be> wrote: > > > > A long-standing complaint on this list is that the signal-to-spam ratio > > of it has been terrible since we made it an open subscription list. When > > I talked to sourceforge support about it, they essentially said "so > > don't make it an open subscription list", which is not acceptable for a > > list that is listed in the MAINTAINERS file in the kernel. > > > > I had planned on asking for a list to be created on alioth.debian.org, > > but in light of that now being decomissioned, the alioth maintainers > > have told me I should instead aim for creating a list on > > lists.debian.org instead. They require public subscription, but that's > > what we want anyway, and they require that the list is for software > > already in Debian, but that's also the case. So it seems like we might > > be able to fit. > > > > Is there anyone on this list who would object to that? If so, are there > > any suggestions for better alternatives? > > > > If no objections are put forward, I'll go ahead with asking for creation > > of the list in a few weeks. > > Moving it anywhere but sourceforge seems like a good plan. The other > obvious choice would be vger.kernel.org, but I'm happy with Debian.
Right, I suppose that would work too. > To be aware of: I believe moving to Debian mailing lists means that > users need to abide by the Debian Code of Conduct > (https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct). This is in my opinion > no bad thing, but people should be aware of this as it is (I believe, > correct me if I am wrong) a consequence of the move. Note the code > of conduct thing isn't a contributor agreement or whatever, it is > in essence a statement that you should be respectful to people on > the list and therefore should be unobjectionable. Additional data point: as I was the primary author of that document, it pretty much represents my thoughts on the matter ;-) Seriously though, Debian's code of conduct was primarily meant to be a "please be courteous and respectful towards others" type of document, which should be a no-brainer. It has a "we may ban trolls" clause, but other than that there's nothing to be afraid of. -- Could you people please use IRC like normal people?!? -- Amaya Rodrigo Sastre, trying to quiet down the buzz in the DebConf 2008 Hacklab ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list Nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general
