Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Tuomo Hartikainen <tth@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Restricted version of gentoo-dev mailing list
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 04:17:17
Message-Id: 20170524041703.GA4707@boxi.hartikainen.me
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Restricted version of gentoo-dev mailing list by William Hubbs
1 Hi all,
2
3 On 2017-05-23 21:08, William Hubbs wrote:
4 > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 09:31:18PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > Hi, everyone.
6 > >
7 > > I'd like to request Infra to establish a new mailing list that would
8 > > fill in the gap between our public mailing lists and the gentoo-core
9 > > mailing list.
10 > >
11 > > Name: gentoo-dev-internal
12 > >
13 > > Topic: technical discussions between active Gentoo contributors
14 >
15 > That's what gentoo-dev is now.
16 >
17 > I'll be honest. I'm really way too tired right now to write a long
18 > argument, but do we really think that basically moving everyone to
19 > another mailing list will solve these kinds of issues?
20 >
21 > I think this is just shuffling people around and will lead to the same
22 > thing happening on the new list over time.
23 >
24 > William
25
26 I too was left wondering, what would be the role of the gentoo-dev after
27 the proposed change. If it is agreed that gentoo-dev has become unusable
28 for development work and the discussion is moved elsewhere, what would
29 be the intended purpose of the current list?
30
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32 Tuomo Hartikainen