On 09:24 Fri 13 Mar 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: > 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.
I understand it. So, this is what I think. Given that the debian-custom mailing list was created for the same purpose and reason why Blends was born, which is providing a discussion forum for Debian-based distribution, it's a bit a difficult right now to take into account those users who started taking the list as a forum for Debian pimping. Given that this is only a matter of a general more global naming confusion, I strongly support the outcome of renaming the list now and redirecting and pointing users who still think it's a forum for Debian customization to the appropiate mailing list, such as debian-user (or its localized variations). If we created a different mailing list for Blends, this would lead us to have similar discussions (both -user and -custom) on two different places whereas they certainly belong to a single one (-user). If by any chance, there's an specific need for a customization talk mailing list, such a list would have to follow the usual list-creation procedure as any other new mailing list and the listmasters would consider it, but as of now, it really makes not much sense to me. D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-custom-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org