On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:56:37PM -0000, Phil Betts wrote: >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.
No, there will be no cygwin-xfree list to mirror to or from. And, given the responses in this thread, I won't be automatically subscribing anyone. So, maybe I shouldn't have used the term "merged". If this happens the only thing that will happen is that cygwin-xfree will disappear from http://cygwin.com/lists.html and we (i.e., I) will stop performing the delightful task of being an off-topic traffic cop. >Also, what will happen to the archives? Will they be merged too? No. That would be a herculean task. The cygwin-xfree archive would just stop at some point. cgf -- 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/