Hello! This was about off-topic discussions on bug-hurd.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:27:37AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Montag, 28. September 2009 10:16:29 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: > > A bit of off-topicness is always > > needed and tolerable, but you have to know when to stop. Else, we might > > think about setting up a hurd-chatter mailing list? > > I fear that that list would just be quite dead soon - and once we'd need it > again, we'd have forgotten about it... just taking the part of the discussion > offlist is much easier. > > And adding another list will make the Hurd lists less accessible. Which brings us (back?) to another topic: should we shut down some Hurd mailing lists? web-hurd and hurd-devel aren't being used at all; help-hurd hardly so; what about l4-hurd? I'd say: * web-hurd: totally unused, so shut down. Make the address forward to bug-hurd. * hurd-devel: unused, so shut down. Forward to bug-hurd. Rationale: discussions amongst developers are held in public (where everyone can participate), they usually originate on bug-hurd or l4-hurd, participating people are kept in CC. * help-hurd: mostly unused, shut down. Forward to bug-hurd. Rationale: people seeking help about using the Hurd end up on the debian-hurd mailing list in the vast majority of cases, all others can be served on bug-hurd (they are to be CCed when answering, so they need not even be subscribed). * l4-hurd: unsed in bursts. Keep it running. Rationale: its audience is quite different from the bug-hurd one, as is (at least partly) the area of subjects being discussed. Opinions? Regards, Thomas
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