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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-dev-announce list
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:28:34
Message-Id: 20060627112048.GB1377@nibiru.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-dev-announce list by Stuart Herbert
1 * Stuart Herbert <stuart.herbert@×××××.com> schrieb:
2 > On 6/25/06, Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> wrote:
3 > >This topic has come up in the past, and I'd like to revive it once
4 > >again. The gentoo-dev list has gotten a lower and lower signal to noise
5 > >ratio over the past year or two, and it's difficult to dig out the stuff
6 > >that's truly required reading.
7 >
8 > What's noise to you is signal to others. For example, my interest is
9 > servers, so all of your X.org posts are mostly noise to me, but to
10 > others it's essential signal. Same goes for the scientific re-org
11 > recently discussed. And I'm sure the same goes for PHP & webapp
12 > stuff.
13
14 ACK. So it seems more worth, splitting off several larger topics,
15 ie. X.org development to separate lists, or even better discuss
16 things that are not really gentoo specific (ie. bug-fixing within
17 the package) on the upstream's list(s).
18
19 (At this point, I'd like to remind you on my distro independent
20 QM project ...)
21
22 > >I propose that all need-to-know announcements and decisions be posted to
23 > >a separate, moderated (or restricted posting) gentoo-dev-announce list
24 > >to ensure that no developers lose track of what really matters.
25 >
26 > I think a -dev-announce ML is a good idea, with reply-to set to -dev.
27
28 ACK. Such an list could be useful.
29
30 *BUT*: it doesn't make any sense just talking about it. Simply do it
31 or forget it. Only talking is nonsense.
32 If I was admin @gentoo.org, I would have set it up even before writing
33 this mail.
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