Le Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:40:36 +0000, Levi Ramsey a écrit : > On Wed Sep 25 19:20 -0700, Quel Qun wrote: >> I think the mailing list has reached its limit. It was very frustrating >> to send problem reports and see them vanish in cyberspace because the >> list suddenly collapsed. We complain about incomplete reports, but it >> takes time to write a detailed message, cutting and pasting standard out >> and co. I cannot afford keeping several terminals per problem open for >> hours. > > Was it hardware overload that took the lists down? Or software overload > at lists with too much traffic?
It was a DNS resolving issue on our mail server, which was affecting not only cooker mailing list but all mandrakesoft emails :(( I think it is "murphy's law" in release team... Usually we had problem with our compilation cluster.. This time, it was the mailing list :) > Perhaps it might make sense to segment the cooker list. Have cooker-kde, > cooker-gnome, and cooker-apache in addition to a general cooker list. > Users who have no interest in running Apache can decide not to subscribe > to cooker-apache but instead get a daily digest, and so forth. Fred > Crozat could then spend most of his time on the cooker-gnome list and > ignore the KDE list. Developers who only work on Apache can stick to that > list. This is not needed.. I don't read mails which are about KDE or Install (well, I read them but very quickly).. If only people were using real topics and split their mails, it would be easier to track :) -- Frédéric Crozat MandrakeSoft
