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: Could you

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

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

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 new list

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.org is right

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 mailing list

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 probably

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 people, which

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.o

Time to change the debian-ports list?

2014-09-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
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 probably not warranted. Some of the traffic is also clearly meant to be

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

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, upcoming