On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 06:39:10PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hi folks, > >I believe the existing debian-ports setup (as an exploder pointing to >all the different port lists) is not working well at all. It's a >confusing setup to many people, which leads to lots of cross-list >noise that's probably not warranted. Some of the traffic is also >clearly meant to be discussing the debian-ports setup itself rather >than individual ports, and that's also off-topic for those ports that >are in the main archive. So, I propose: > > * Remove the confusion: turn debian-ports into a separate *normal* > mailing list, announce it and let people subscribe to it as they > see fit normally. This would be specifically for "discussions about > ports.debian.org and architectures hosted there". > > * Explicitly do *not* add another exploder to replace the old > address: instead, *if* we want something to cover this use case, > add a new list that interested people can subscribe to. Maybe > "debian-cross-ports" or "debian-architectures" or something. Please > feel free to suggest a better name! If such a list were to be set > up, we could/should encourage existing architecture porters to sign > up there too. > >Thoughts?
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