[gentoo-dev] Too many mailing lists

[Ivan Yosifov]

Hello Everyone,

First of all - this is just an idea, if my impressions are wrong -
pardon. 
It is my impression that gentoo has way too many mailing lists wich by
themselves are not very active. For example I am a
gentoo-desktop-research subscriber for mounths and have not recived a
single message. 
I further believe that developer issues are always just developer
issues. A java-plugin can expose a browser bug. A ppc specific problem
my be a bug in the common kernel source. There is little reason for
having a dozen separate lists when the issues discussed on these lists
are related. As of now for a developer to have a full grasp of what
ideas are flying about and what problems bother the users most he has to
subscribe to ALL lists which is a lot of subscibe-me mails. 
Imagine a PPC user with security problem in the java plugin. Where can
he discus his problem ? On gentoo-desktop, gentoo-security, gentoo-dev,
gentoo-ppc-dev, gentoo-ppc-user, gentoo-java or somewhere else? Having
so many lists with so deeply connected topics is confusing and a waste
of valuable communication resources.
I propose the following. There should be a gentoo-announce list for
GLSA,release announces and whatever everyone must be aware of. There
should be a gentoo-dev for all development related issues (users having
problems go here). And there should be a gentoo-user for users that need
guidance (like how do I do this,where is that...).
Naturally the traffic on the dev and user list can get high. But no one
forces the PPC dev to read the X.org threads so this should not be a
problem.
Posting to Bugzilla (73642) as an RFE and to dev as an RFC. 

Ivan Yosifov.


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