Morgan Collett wrote: > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 09:57, Simon Schampijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 6:05 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> 1. Create [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. We have discussed >>>> this a few time over the last few months. Now that we are getting >>>> distro (other the OLPC) related comments the time seems right > > +1 > >>>> 2. Create [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. This will focus >>>> on activity developer related issues. >>> Are there strong reasons to separate the two lists? (Morgan seem to be >>> making a different recommendation). >>> >>> Marco >> Yeah it is only meant as a way to notify the activity authors. An >> announcement list: >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Morgs/Activities_survey/Recommendations#Mailing_Lists >> >> All the rest of the discussion is going to the sugar-ml. >> >> Best, >> Simon >> >> PS: some will argue that you can use headers for that as well - but from >> morgan's survey I think we saw that this was the best way to go. > > My original proposal was to have a list dedicated to activity > development. There was a lot of feedback on that suggesting that we > should continue to use the sugar list for development discussion so as > not to fragment the community. > > What I got out of the survey is that we need a way for activity > developers to unsubscribe from the high-traffic lists but still get > relevant notifications. A high percentage of these developers don't > have the time to keep up with the daily traffic about the platform, > but are missing the information that they need. For example, I'm not > confident of reaching them all (including those that didn't answer the > survey) with the survey results unless I mail them individually. > > Therefore I think a [EMAIL PROTECTED] list (which we used > briefly at the start of the Sugar 0.82 cycle) is more relevant to them > than an activities-specific list. It could also be used for packagers > who only want to see major announcements (e.g. 0.82.1 released) and > not the development discussion traffic. > > I have just noticed that there is a new [EMAIL PROTECTED] > list, which must be new and unannounced since it's had precisely one > mail to it: > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2008-August/thread.html > > I do think we need it to be a sugarlabs list because the activity > developers need to keep up with the Sugar platform more than the OLPC > distro platform (with the exception of Rainbow I guess). > > What I want to get to now is finality on what I can go back to the > activity authors and advise them. Remember that we have activity > developers who are not using git hosting, who don't have XOs, and may > only be using jhbuild or distro packages to develop and test their > activities. > > I suggest: > * subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and use to request git hosting on
We don't have the box up yet - but sugarlabs should provide git hosting as well in the future. Best, Simon _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep