Hi, ITP bugs are copied to debian-devel@. The intention, I think, is to make sure that they have many eyes on them. ITP bugs often get feedback from readers of debian-devel.
I think this is valuable. However, it's one job/task/role, and sometimes One wishes to focus on other jobs/tasks/roles instead. When I subscribed to debian-devel directly, I most often filtered ITP mail into a separate mailbox, to read at separate times. Nowadays, I read most Debian lists via NNTP gateways, and filtering ITPs is not quite so convenient (not least, because I don't easily have an analogue of the ITP-dedicated mailbox I used to.). But besides me, I think a better "default" for debian-devel would be not to have the ITPs. I think the ITP mails can make reading the rest of the list difficult without extra local filtering or steps. Some times they are the majority of the list traffic. I think it would be better if ITP mail went to a separate, dedicated list, e.g. "debian-itp" to which contributors are encouraged to subscribe and participate. Does anyone have any strong feelings about this, either for or against? Thanks -- 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ j...@debian.org 🔗 https://jmtd.net