As everyone here has probably noticed already, the traffic on debian-devel has increased again. (My debian-devel mail folder for March 98 is 8.7 mb large!)
I guess one of the reasons is that a lot of project related discussions which have been hold on debian-private before, are now moved to debian-devel. (It's good to have less discussions in private--but this made debian-devel even harder to follow.) The problem with having everything on a single list (the volume of debian-devel is extremly large compared to the other debian-* lists) is that is very hard to follow the important discussions only. (For example, I was very busy the last weeks. I didn't had time to read all mails on debian-devel, but I wanted to read at least the important threads about the constitution. This was nearly impossible--even with a threaded mail client--since such discussions don't use a single thread, but several ones and very important mails are mixed between totally unimportant mails.) Therefore, I'd suggest to split off a new mailing list from debian-devel, namely `debian-project', where all project related discussions (e.g., Constitution, Maintainer DB) would be held. This mailing list would be open to the public too (like debian-devel) and we could even start with the same subscriptor list like debian-devel. The new setup would allow people who are only intrested in the technical stuff to subscribe to debian-devel only (I guess this applies for most of the beta-testers or users of "unstable"), and would make it much easier for the `busy Debian developers' who don't have time to follow every single mail on debian-devel. Comments are appreciated! Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\______/ ! PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,----.-.- "DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]