RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-07 Thread Chris Halls
[moving to debian-project] On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:24:37PM -0700, tluxt wrote: > --- Chris Halls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:28:22PM -0700, tluxt wrote: > > > --- tluxt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think it would be an excellent idea to have a debian-user-woo

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:39:32PM +0200, Chris Halls wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:28:22PM -0700, tluxt wrote: > > > > I think it would be an excellent idea to have a > > > > debian-user-woody list. > > > > > > > > The debian-testing is for developers. I thought that was anything but t

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
FYI, debian-testing is NOT for developers. This list was created for the testing group started during the release of 1.3. Most of the members at that time were Debian users, and not developers. The whole point was to get users involved in testing. Developers said they were already testing on their

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-07 Thread tluxt
--- Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, debian-testing is NOT for developers. Hmm... If that is true then perhaps it would be a good idea to update some part of the following to be more accurate, correct, or informative. http://lists.debian.org/devel.html "This is an index of mailing

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-07 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:25:52PM -0700, tluxt wrote: > > FYI, debian-testing is NOT for developers. > > Hmm... > > If that is true then perhaps it would be a good idea to update some part > of the following to be more accurate, correct, or informative. > > http://lists.debian.org/devel.html >

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-07 Thread tluxt
--- Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:25:52PM -0700, tluxt wrote: > > > FYI, debian-testing is NOT for developers. > > > > Hmm... > > > > If that is true then perhaps it would be a good idea to update some part > > of the following to be more accurate, correct, o

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
tluxt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > > In fact, I'm wondering: _does_ it have a speific purpose today? Currently it is used as a place to report successful installation of testing distribution. If there was a successful report of an installation there for an arch, that architecture

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-10 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:41:50AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > FYI, debian-testing is NOT for developers. > > This list was created for the testing group started during the release of > 1.3. Most of the members at that time were Debian users, and not > developers. The whole point was to get users

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-10 Thread tluxt
--- Chris Halls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think both would be best :-) i.e. more people helping the testing > group, and a new list for people who are running testing/unstable and > asking questions on debian-user. I agree. > Yes, we need more people to help do the work of the testing grou

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-10 Thread tluxt
(Update, adding "-user" in four places to correct & clarify.) --- Chris Halls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think both would be best :-) i.e. more people helping the testing > group, and a new list for people who are running testing/unstable and > asking questions on debian-user. I agree. > Y

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-10 Thread paulwade
Why not use the word beta in the new list name? That applies to frozen or what we are wishing would be frozen. Some combination of the words debian, user and beta would work and it won't sound like debian-testing at all. pw

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-10 Thread tluxt
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why not use the word beta in the new list name? That applies to frozen or > what we are wishing would be frozen. Some combination of the words debian, > user and beta would work and it won't sound like debian-testing at all. Thank you for your suggestion! :) I do no

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-12 Thread paulwade
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, tluxt wrote: > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why not use the word beta in the new list name? That applies to frozen or > > what we are wishing would be frozen. Some combination of the words debian, > > user and beta would work and it won't sound like debian-testing at all.

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-14 Thread tluxt
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, tluxt wrote: > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Why not use the word beta in the new list name? That applies to frozen or > > > what we are wishing would be frozen. Some combination of the words debian, > > > user and beta would work and it

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-14 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi tluxt! On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, tluxt wrote: > Actually, the more I think about what such a list should be about, > and what it's name should be, the more I think we should have two lists: > > debian-woody-user > debian-sid-user It should be debian-user-woody debian-user-sid _or_ debian-u

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:30:34AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > It should be > debian-user-woody > debian-user-sid > _or_ > debian-user-testing > debian-user-unstable > if anything at all (I don't comment on the necessity as I don't read > -user currently). > > The latter two having th

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-14 Thread Jorge Santos
tluxt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, tluxt wrote: > > > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Why not use the word beta in the new list name? That applies to frozen > > > > or > > > > what we are wishing would be frozen. Some combination of

Re: RFD: Separate mailing list for users running testing?

2001-09-15 Thread paulwade
Just one comment on choosing names: If we use names like woody or potato in a mailing list name we are using names which will eventually go out of use. That is the reason I suggested using the beta word. It denotes that the list is not for users of the current stable release, but the closest thing