On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 03:53:09PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > Le Thursday 18 December 2008 15:45:05 Michael Banck, vous avez écrit : > > > I'd argue about that "official" thing that people have been using to > > > qualify d-d-a. It's an announce list for developers, by > > > developers. > > > > Wrong. While in /theory/ it might be for developers, in /practise/, > > d-d-a is consumed by the public as a prime source of important > > information regarding Debian besides debian-announce and debian-news. > > The fact that Debian Developers are supposed ot read it does not mean > > others do not, and there is not much we can do about this at this point. > > With this kind of sloppy argument, everything that anyone interested in > Debian > may read should be considered as "official", including the planet.
Like it or not, messages to d-d-a are frequently forwarded verbatim to LWN and other major IT-centered news sources. This happen much less frequently with other Debian sources, besides, of course, debian-news and debian-announce. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org