Iain,

I have to disagree on this.  One of the properties of vote-info is that a
single person is only to be signed up once to this list.  It is this list
that enables us to have an accurate count of official 'membership'.  

A 'dev' list on the other hand, many people will want and need to be signed
up to more than once (like with both work and home email addresses) and this
wreaks havoc with vote counting.

Also, a change to the Policy Book for this would require an ordinary vote.
I don't think it is worth it.

Avery J. Regier



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iain Shigeoka [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 12:06 PM
> To:   Robert Fitzsimons; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Re: [JOS] Mailing list reorganization
> 
> At 06:23 AM 9/24/00 +0000, Robert Fitzsimons wrote:
> 
> >So the proposal is too reduce the number so that the discussions can be
> >more easily followed.
> >
> >So these would be the mailing lists:
> >announce -  Used to announce project status, releases, etc.
> >             Same as current mailing list.
> >vote-info - Used to organize votes as required by Policy Book.
> >             Same as current mailing list.
> >developer - Used to discuss all issuse related to developement.
> >             A combination of all the previous mailing lists.
> >
> >I've left out the admin mailing list.  Do we need it?  Can we not just
> >use the developer mailing list?
> 
> I think we need a "general" or "user" list for anything that isn't 
> development related.  Typically, because the developers are the voters, 
> most projects seem to break it up as:
> 
> announce
> dev
> general/user
> 
> with votes occuring on the dev list.  I'd prefer to vote on a change to
> the 
> policy book to get voting onto the dev list and break it up this way (3 
> lists really is enough).
> 
> -iain
> 
> 
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