On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, David Moreno wrote:
It's my understanding that Debian Pure Blends is the rename of the CDD project. Is that correct?
Yes.
If it's basically the same thing, I believe renaming the list would suffice, unless there's an actual reason why to leave -custom orphaned and unattended.
No. The main reason for the renaming is that the former name was missleading and people used the custom list for discussion about things which was not the original target of the former CDD now Blends effort. The list was used for discussion about how to customise your private Debian customisation and things like that. This was perfectly reasonable and interesting discussion but leaded to endless missunderstandings especially for newcomers. So a simple renaming of the list would leave people into this topic alone and they would not find a reasonable place to discuss these issues. The perfect solution would be to manually investigate all the past mails and tag those who are Blends related and move only these to the new list. I would even spend some time on this issue if this is technically possible and would not be to complicated. But IMHO just renaming the list is not a good solution.
I see no difference on renaming the list and re-start using it as Pure Blends. It makes not too much sense to just drop other list which archive could be useful for other people too and pretend that the CDD list was never there.
Well, we definitely have a loss of information on the new Blends list but I try to solve this by some links to important threads (if the chance to take over some mails from the past just is to expensive.
Please consider my opinions above.
Well, I have considered it several times. From a Blends point of view it would be a better solution to just to rename the list. But I'd regard it just unfair against those people who would miss a forum for the customisation issues. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-custom-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org