On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 04:23:53PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Ok, as asked by the originator of this request, currently I see > no specific problems in moving to use debian-...@l.d.o and > debian-gis-committ...@l.d.o,
Just to clarify the list request issue (where I was the originator): The main point is not *moving* the content of one currently existing list into two (how should be thia done?) but rather *creating* a new list for general discussion of GIS in Debian issues. The existence of such a list has turned out to have a positive effect regarding the communication between users and developers especially to gather new developers for the team. In short: the current developer oriented list which is used to discuss mostly pure packaging issues is not affected by my *original* suggestion. > but for the fact that the the main > list is an open one (with probably a better antispam management). > Other people did express some concerns about that. Note that > also the current pkg-grass-devel list is open, but rules are > good enough to avoid spamming AFAIK. My own pro is that I could > avoid to loose time to manage the two lists :) > > About the history, as explained on the wiki: > > ---- > An existing mailing list can be moved to lists.debian.org: the > administrator of the list has to submit a request as described above and > provide us with a list of subscribers (in plain text format, one address > per line). Archives of the existing list can also be imported from files > in mbox format (preferably split per month). > ---- > > So I *think* the past history could be moved from alioth to lists.d.o. > I can surely provide a subscribers list too. The discussion was somehow extended by the suggestion to solve the confusion about the naming of the developer oriented list. I agree with this suggestion but it is a separate issue (even if it has the same goal in mind). If I remember right the suggestion was also not to move the developer list from alioth to l.d.o. Usually you find the developer oriented lists at alioth and I do not see any reason for changing this. I would welcome if we would not spoil the original discussion with this issue because it obviosely has created more confusion than needed. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list Pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel