Indeed its true. We need a separate place to carry our work freely. Without a separate dev mailing list, we have to scan through every "Users" posts which contain nothing but very basic doubts which anyone can respond to. With separate mailing list, we would be able to quickly get our thoughts across the table. I think "Mailman" would be ideal. On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Danny Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On IRC discussion there seemed to be general consensus that gNewSense > was ready for a gnewsense-dev mailing list, since a lot of the > gnewsense-users traffic is starting to be actually user-oriented (yay > users!). > > Also there are several unfortunately long threads going on about the > Lemote/MIPS development where instead of any list it's just a bunch of > individuals cc:ed; I want to avoid this for the majority of > conversations, as it's exclusionary, hard to reference, and makes it > harder for new people to get involved. > > Would anyone have objections or alternative suggestions to the creation > of [email protected]? > > We may also want to create something like [email protected] for > discussion of only builder [1,2]; it might be useful to not have > "gnewsense" in the name as builder may eventually also be used to create > distributions based on Debian GNU/Linux that are modified in the same > way gNewSense modifies Ubuntu GNU/Linux, and those distributions may not > be named "gNewSense" to avoid user confusion. > > For that matter builder was originally created with the intention that > it be used to create other Ubuntu derived distributions named something > other than gNewSense, so that list could be used for those if they > appear as well. > > Disadvantage of this list would be possibly too much dilution / too many > mailing lists, so I would esp. like feedback on this one. > > Also, would people find something like Gmane [3] but hosted on > gnewsense.org (perhaps as a replacement for the current forums) useful? > Free Software such as mail2forum [4] provides this functionality. > > [1] Create Your Own Distro > http://www.gnewsense.org/Builder/HowToCreateYourOwnGNULinuxDistribution > > [2] Our Builder generates our repositories and liveCD > http://www.gnewsense.org/Builder/Builder > > [3] Gmane: gNewSense Lists > http://dir.gmane.org/search.php?match=gnewsense > > [4] m2f: connecting communities > http://mail2forum.com/ > > Cheers, > -- > Daniel JB Clark | Sys Admin, Free Software Foundation > pobox.com/~dclark <http://pobox.com/%7Edclark> | > http://www.fsf.org/about/staff#danny > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > > -- SANATH KUMAR
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