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On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:29:03PM +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: |
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> On 25-07-2010 09:56, Alistair Bush wrote: |
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> >> It was suggested by some people before (few months ago), so let's |
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> >> discuss it for real. |
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> >> |
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> >> Here are my suggestions: |
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> >> |
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> >> - remove gentoo-project, we can discuss things on gentoo-dev |
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> > I'm going to sit on the sidelines for this one. |
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> As this ml was created at a time there was quite a turmoil in our MLs, |
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> that its purpose was to help split technical discussions from other |
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> subjects, that by accident or design those times are mostly gone now, |
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> and that I still think there's a place and purpose for it, I want to |
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> keep it around. |
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+1 |
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its understandable that -dev has more traffic + readers - we are a |
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technical project :) |
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still, there are discussions that don't belong there. people interested |
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in those kinds of discussions should subscribe to -project. -dev is |
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(should be) expected to contain techical discussions. |
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> >> - remove gentoo-gmn, the project is dead, isn't it? |
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> >> - remove gentoo-desktop-research, for similar reasons |
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> >> - remove gentoo-performance, for similar reasons |
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> >> - remove gentoo-extreme-security, ditto |
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> I think this should fall to the people in those projects, but if there |
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> really is no one left, then we can think about closing them. |
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> >> My understanding is that we would still keep the archives of those |
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> >> mailing lists, which are probably valuable. |
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> >> |
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> >> The main benefit of the mailing list consolidation is less confusion |
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> >> where to post, less fragmentation (people not reading or even not seeing |
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> >> certain discussions), and removal of dead lists which give bad |
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> >> impression when people try to use them. |
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> >> |
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> >> What do you think? |
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> The fragmentation issue is raised from time to time, but as I don't see |
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> us being able to prevent people from using IRC, talking in private by |
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> email, IM or other means, I think it's mostly unavoidable. |
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We shouldn't prevent them anyway. the nature of our project demands |
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constant communication and sometimes emailing just won't cut it. |
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> Besides, the goal of the gentoo-dev-announce list is to notify everyone |
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> about any issue that is deemed sufficiently important and to let people |
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> know where such discussion is going to take place. |
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+1 |
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