On 7/24/14, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24/07/2014, Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> wrote: >> On 7/24/14, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 21/07/2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org >>> <berenger.mo...@neutralite.org> wrote: >>>> Le 21.07.2014 15:31, Slavko a écrit : >>>>> Ahoj, >>>>> >>>>> it seems, that there can good idea to provide separate ML for testing >>>>> users. >>>> >>>> I agree, since testing is not for normal users (well... theoretically >>>> at least), so we could imagine that different MLs for (beta-)testing >>>> and >>>> productive usage (questions about "how to do..." and stable related >>>> bugs >>>> would go there, I guess). >>>> Now, I have no idea about the complexity of maintaining a new ML. Maybe >>>> there are also problems because some issues can not clearly affect only >>>> one of both testing and stable? >>> >>> I would like to see a list for each of: >>> experimental >>> unstable >>> testing >>> stable (by version number, eg, at present, 7) >>> oldstable (by version number, eg, at present, 6) >>> obsolete (versions previous to oldstable) >>> hybrid - combinations of the above, eg, where people mix stable and >>> testing, >>> etc >>> >>> I believe that it would be helpful, and, would provide for most >>> scenario's, and, when a new release occurs (eg, for Debian 8), the >>> archives get each moved into the lower level archive, so the oldstable >>> archive goes into the obsolete, the stable archive goes into the >>> oldstable, and the testing archive goes into the stabl;e achive. >>> >>> Or, the top three; >>> experimental >>> unstable >>> testing >>> then by version number; >>> 7 >>> 6 >>> 5 >>> 4 >>> 3.1 >>> 3 >> >> No no, that's really impractical - the applications man, >> the applications! >> >> We need a list for each package! You can't ruly home in >> on your questions of interest until you have dedicated >> lists for each package. >> >> Sometimes, those lists should have a repeater which >> copies each message to a corresponding upstream list >> (I'm thinking mutt for example, but I'm sure there's >> others). >> >> so mutt-debian-users@.., postgresql-debian-users@... etc. > > Well, .... there are application lists. > > PostgreSQL has its own lists, MySQL has its own lists, Fetchmail has > its own list, Posfix has its own list, Procmail has its own list, > alpine has its own list, GRAMPS has its own list, GnuCash has its own > list, as mentioned in another thread (the one about iceape), Seamonkey > has its own list, and, as the King (as played by Yul Brynner) said, > "etcetera, etcetera, etcetera".
There's a slashdot saying appropriate just here ... not quite sure what that is, it's ... going over my head right now. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caosgnssxrryvkvthgcj1dj6ciiuz6xeoxyz9_mb7vsr-k...@mail.gmail.com
