On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Peter Junge <peter.ju...@gmx.org> wrote: > On 03.09.2011 11:00, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> I've been going through the archives of the existing >> us...@openoffice.org and disc...@openoffice.org. I cannot tell them >> apart. They cover the kinds of questions and topics. Maybe at some >> point in the past the project had distinct visions for each list. But >> this differences are blurred beyond detection now, at least to me. > > Originally discuss@ooo was intended to be the mailing list for the community > to discuss about the community, hence both focusing on a different topic and > addressing a different audience. Over the years discuss@ooo indeed became > something like users2@ooo. >
OK. That is good to know. > >> >> Since we've recently set up the ooo-users@i.a.o, I think it makes >> sense to ask users from both users@ooo and discuss@ooo to move to >> ooo-users. In doing so we avoid unnecessarily fragmenting community >> discussions. > > That would make sense, at least for those who are used to discuss support > topics at discuss@ooo. The few others should be happy with ooo-dev. > So we should probably mention both lists in the notification to discuss@oo.o. We'll probably be merging other lists in a similar fashion. users@ooo -> ooo-users dev@ooo -> ooo-dev discuss@ooo -> ooo-users Also, within the projects, the dev-related projects (performance, security, api, uno, xml, etc.) should go to ooo-dev as well. > Peter > >
