On 11/06/2016 02:59 PM, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: > > Based on these observations, I think the information on [2] should be > updated to tell DNG is the primary ML. devuan-discuss would better be > closed and all the subscribers informed that DNG is the primary ML for > getting help and discuss about Devuan, because it has always been and > people never switched to devuan-discuss. >
The devuan-discuss mailing list was created to harmonize the lists: devuan-announce, devuan-discuss, and devuan-dev, and to move away from the "Debian is Not GNOME" antagonist pattern. People never switched because there was no discussion about the identity of Devuan. All we know is that Devuan is not Debian. But we can't define our identity on a negative: Devuan has another energy than just being opposed to a unequivocal way of thinking about free software. I'm sad that people who were determined enough to switch distro would be lazy enough to not jump ships and say: here we are, we are Devuan, and we are not just against stuff. I love the idea of having a history and roots, and that DNG is the heart of our common ancestry. I know people use email filters that have to be updated in order to keep the sorting going. But I hate thinking about GNOME every time I post to DNG, for the simple reason that I have never used it and do not feel concerned about opposing GNOME. I'm sure it works for a number of people, and I'm not part of them. Don't you have a problem thinking about Devuan as "Debian without systemd"? I know we're still early in the process of differentiation, but I'm already pretty sure that what Devuan is becoming is not *in comparison of* anything. The fact we're receiving news of people making new derivatives regularly should be much more important in our decision making than any anti-foo bigotry. So yes, devuan-discuss is not useful. But contrary to what Jaromil said, it was not a 'top-down' approach to create it: if it were, everybody on DNG would have been subscribed to devuan-discuss and DNG would have been closed and kept for historical reason, which is what should happen if we really cared to think about our identity as an universal free software operating system. I understand Devuan as neither top-down nor bottom-up, but organic and transversal. So I don't say bottom-up: I say topless. Regards, == hk P.S.: in the meantime I edited the web site to remove mention of devuan-discuss to avoid confusion. But I'd rather do the opposite, and freeze DNG. -- _ _ We are free to share code and we code to share freedom (_X_)yne Foundation, Free Culture Foundry * https://www.dyne.org/donate/ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng