Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2015-07-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 1:21 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I'm in favor of the old design because I think it's important to havw a list > which can be used to make announcements about important issues that all > porters should be aware of. We have debian-devel-announce for that, the ex

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2015-07-22 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Steve McIntyre dixit: >>That seems like a bad idea to me, tbh. There will be people who won't >>notice that the meaning of debian-ports@ has changed, and who will try >>to use it with its old meaning. >favour of the existing behaviour. If anybody does use try to use it >that way in future, the ne

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2015-07-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
I'm in favor of the old design because I think it's important to havw a list which can be used to make announcements about important issues that all porters should be aware of. It's not really that mails going to debian-ports@ appear that often. PS: Excuse my quoting style, currently on mobile.

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2015-07-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 05:38:17PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:40:20PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:51:29PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 07:01:00PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> >>Alexander Wirt dixit: >> >>

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2015-07-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, (haven't seen the original mail, so replying to this one) On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:40:20PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:51:29PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 07:01:00PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >>Alexander Wirt dixit: > >> > >>>C

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2015-07-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:51:29PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 07:01:00PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >>Alexander Wirt dixit: >> >>>Could you please (technically) summarize what needs to be done from >>>listmaster side? >> >>1. Remove whatever debian-po...@lists.debian.

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 07:01:00PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >Alexander Wirt dixit: > >>Could you please (technically) summarize what needs to be done from >>listmaster side? > >1. Remove whatever debian-po...@lists.debian.org is right now > >2. Create a new debian-po...@lists.debian.org maili

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Alexander Wirt dixit: >Could you please (technically) summarize what needs to be done from >listmaster side? 1. Remove whatever debian-ports@l.d.o is right now 2. Create a new debian-ports@l.d.o mailing list which works just like the other regular lists 3. Announce the new debian-ports@l.d.

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-10 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 06:39:10PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > >I believe the existing debian-ports setup (as an exploder pointing to > >all the different port lists) is not working well at all. It's a > >confusing setup to many peop

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 06:39:10PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hi folks, > >I believe the existing debian-ports setup (as an exploder pointing to >all the different port lists) is not working well at all. It's a >confusing setup to many people, which leads to lots of cross-list >noise that's prob

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Steven Chamberlain dixit: >On 05/09/14 18:39, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> * Remove the confusion: turn debian-ports into a separate *normal* >>mailing list, announce it and let people subscribe to it [...] > >That sounds perfect IMHO. It could be used for general discussion about >porting, upco

Re: Time to change the debian-ports "list"?

2014-09-05 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 05/09/14 18:39, Steve McIntyre wrote: > * Remove the confusion: turn debian-ports into a separate *normal* >mailing list, announce it and let people subscribe to it [...] That sounds perfect IMHO. It could be used for general discussion about porting, upcoming new ports, or any ports