Christopher Faylor wrote on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 5:49 PM:: > The historical reasons for merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists > no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. > > If anyone has a compelling reason why this should not happen please > send it to one of the two lists. If I don't hear a coherent argument > against doing this, I'll throw the switch over the weekend. > > Btw, I'm only mildly sympathetic to arguments like "It will be more > email for me". I'm more concerned with having to constantly shuttle > people back and forth between the two lists. Unless there is a > compelling argument to the contrary, I think that the fact that people > are confused about which list to use outweighs the increase in email > traffic for people who just want to hear about cygwin/x. > > cgf
Although I currently have rules to put the two lists in different mail folders and it works well for me, but I'd also be perfectly happy with the change. There are plenty of borderline issues where it's not clear (to the user at least) whether the problem is X related or cygwin related, so a unified list removes any need to speculate. With the 1.7 release now officially available for public test, there are bound to be issues in X apps, where the cause is really in the cygwin DLL, so merging the lists asap will save everyone having to play the guess-the-list game. A couple of things to consider (although you're probably way ahead of me): Will mail sent to the xfree ML email address be diverted (or mirrored) to the cygwin ML? Human nature being what it is, it's unrealistic to expect everyone replying to an old thread to remember to change the To: line. Also, what will happen to the archives? Will they be merged too? If they are, any links to xfree archived posts (both within the ML itself, and also from bookmarks/blogs/forums/other MLs/etc) will be broken. Would it be possible to alias the old URLs to avoid breaking links? If the archives are not merged, the threading should at least be maintained (both ways) between the old xfree list and the merged list. (i.e. a reply to a message on cygwin-xfree which goes to the cygwin ML needs the References entry to point back to the xfree archive, and the xfree message needs the Follow-ups entry to point to the cygwin archive). Phil -- This email has been scanned by Ascribe PLC using Microsoft Antigen for Exchange. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/