[gentoo-dev] New lists and their usage

[Chris Gianelloni]

OK.  I'm sure this will probably bring upon a ton of responses, but
let's hope they all stay on-topic.  I'm not posting this to
gentoo-project since I think it belongs here until this is agreed upon.

So, let's get started:

gentoo-dev: This list is for technical discussion, primarily between
developers, about development and development-related issues that
directly affect the tree or current projects.  For now, no changes are
made to this list.

gentoo-dev-announce: This is the announcement list for
development-related stuff.  Now, there's two ideas for how to run the
list, that I can think of, but I'm sure there's others.

- Make the list set reply-to to gentoo-dev and automatically copy any
messages from this list to gentoo-dev...

- Make the list *not* set *any* reply-to, nor strip it, and allow people
to use the list to announce development-related stuff from *any* list...
For example, if I'm about to start a discussion on possible changes to
the releases, I could send a message to gentoo-dev-announce, which will
start the thread, with gentoo-releng set as the reply-to.  I would be
responsible for making sure the email was also sent to gentoo-releng
myself.

gentoo-projects: This list is for... what exactly?  I've not really
figured that one out just yet.  I know it is supposed to be pretty much
anything that doesn't fit into gentoo-dev or another project-specific
list.  Am I correct here?  Is this what everyone thinks this list is
supposed to be used for?

Anyway, I'd like for us to come up with an agreement on the usage of
these lists so we can put them into the policies and start using them
that way.  Remember that there hasn't been consensus (yet) on the usage
of the lists, so we need to do that as soon as possible.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation