Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-09 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 09/04/2015 10:37, Jaromil wrote: a -Dev list is there already, just not public and invite only. That's really a shame, because I would love to have access to that list - even read-only. Isn't it possible to open subscriptions while keeping posts moderated ? (posts from devs would be

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-09 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Author: Martijn Dekkers Date: 2015-04-08 00:35 -400 To: dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [Dng] dev-list  Personally, my view is that there is no cost or significant effort to the project for splitting to -dev and -user. Those who are not interested in either of these lists don't have to subscribe

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-09 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Thu 09 April 2015 02:20:16 hellekin wrote: *** I see another two groups: people who want to work together and build something different that won't end up in an isolated technical committee in their ivory towers, and bullies. Sorry that's not to the point. Nobody at all talked about

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-09 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 10:20 +0300, Martijn Dekkers wrote: I am neither the first, nor will I be the last, to ask for a -dev list. *** I see another two groups: people who want to work together and build something different that won't end up in an isolated technical committee in their ivory

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-09 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 10:20:19AM +0300, Martijn Dekkers wrote: [cut] You can now count me amongst those in the fuck it, this is a waste of time camp. Good luck with your forum, your everyone use one list or GTFO attitude, the constant off-list clique forming and gossipy emails about list

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-09 Thread Franco Lanza
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 10:20:19AM +0300, Martijn Dekkers wrote: You know what hellekin - you post from a dyne.org email address, and from the way you write you put yourself forward as one of the people running the project. dyne.org != devun dyne.org != VUAs dyne.org is helping VUAs and

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-09 Thread Martijn Dekkers
That's pretty arrogant. Can you back that up with some actual reasons, like others in this discussion are doing? Or is this simply a case of because I said so It's not arrogant, it's a fact. There's not even a single release, only a dozen or so regular participants, and you already

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-09 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 12:00 +0200, Laurent Bercot wrote: For what is worth - and at risk of adding fuel to the fire, but I am just voicing my impressions and you guys will do what you want with it: Please direct me to the place where the technical discussions are happening; if they're

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-09 Thread Laurent Bercot
For what is worth - and at risk of adding fuel to the fire, but I am just voicing my impressions and you guys will do what you want with it: I have subscribed to this list five days ago, hoping to see technical discussions about how to design a distribution without systemd. I am the author of

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-09 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Oh wait, it wasn't offlist. On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Martijn Dekkers devuan-li...@dekkers.org.uk wrote: The «long standing, wide-ranging implementation pattern» thing is a bogus argument. Similar to Lots of people jump of bridges, care to join them? Thats just uninformed bullshit.

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-09 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Thu 09 April 2015 11:27:45 Franco Lanza wrote: all of those open to anyone, without restriction on WHO can join, but with restriction on WHAT can be considered in topic and what not. (plus all the rest) Absolutely to the point. Thanks! Exactly what we see everywhere else *WORKING*. And

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-09 Thread Jaromil
hi, On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Brad Campbell wrote: On 09/04/15 23:56, Laurent Bercot wrote: On 09/04/2015 10:37, Jaromil wrote: a -Dev list is there already, just not public and invite only. That's really a shame, because I would love to have access to that list - even read-only. Isn't it

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 8. April 2015, 08:09:14 schrieb Robert Storey: Good point. But I thought the reason for the suggestion was because of the amount of fairly useless chatter on this list that the devs have to wade through. (Honestly, it annoys me too.) If there is a -dev list, I

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread hal
Jude Nelson wrote on 04/07/15 20:04: suggest that Pottering is evil, Definitely looking forward to this stopping. Agreed. It accomplishes nothing but heat up the list and add to the static. RE: Development list: Since there is way more general chit-chat, how about having the

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread hellekin
FYI, I've been working on a Discourse instance for Devuan, so that we can have the best of both worlds (email and forum). If this happens, the developers can simply ignore threads they're not interested in and keep focused on work. The forum form is likely to grow beyond what any single person

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread hellekin
On 04/08/2015 07:44 PM, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: We got #debianfork and #devuan IRC channels for pretty much the same reasons, and it seems it sort of works there. So for ML that would be the natural template to follow. *** Except the move from IRC to email matches in nature the move from

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread hellekin
On 04/09/2015 01:15 AM, Martijn Dekkers wrote: We do not need another list. That's pretty arrogant. Can you back that up with some actual reasons, like others in this discussion are doing? Or is this simply a case of because I said so It's not arrogant, it's a fact. There's not even a

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread hellekin
On 04/09/2015 01:17 AM, Martijn Dekkers wrote: The reason the vast majority of projects use separate lists is because it *works* [dev] tagged topics don't work very well, because in most cases, people tend to forget, or change the subjectline, or whatever. *** I agree that Mailman's topics

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread Martijn Dekkers
We do not need another list. That's pretty arrogant. Can you back that up with some actual reasons, like others in this discussion are doing? Or is this simply a case of because I said so ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread Robert Storey
Apollia wrote: I'm also glad there is a forum: http://talk.devuan.org/ I actually prefer forums over mailing lists in general because forums seem to be more organized, which makes it easier for people to avoid anything they're uninterested in. I didn't realize we had a forum. And I agree

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread Martijn Dekkers
should we just retire the mailing list(s) and start using the forum? ...I don't even... ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread hellekin
On 04/08/2015 09:49 PM, Steve Litt wrote: I make the following pledge to make sure I don't cause or continue conflict or noise on Dng: 1) I will not respond, at least on-list, to any thread discussing the merits or shames of systemd. I will either ignore, respond offlist, or filter and

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 05:47:25PM -0300, hellekin wrote: On 04/08/2015 11:57 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Rather than dividing the list between developers and users, it would be better to divide them betwen technical and nontechnical. *** We could use mailman's topics for that. When you want

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 19:16:34 -0400 Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org wrote: On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 05:44:41 +0800 Robert Storey robert.sto...@gmail.com wrote: Which begs the question: should we just retire the mailing list(s) and start using the forum? Please dont; with a

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Thu 09 April 2015 05:44:41 Robert Storey wrote: Which begs the question: should we just retire the mailing list(s) and start using the forum? Real Programmers dont use Forum On a less joking comment: the ML is the medium of choice for serious communication, simply since you don't need a

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread Martijn Dekkers
The «long standing, wide-ranging implementation pattern» thing is a bogus argument. Similar to Lots of people jump of bridges, care to join them? Thats just uninformed bullshit. Patterns are one of the cornerstones of modern computing architecture - without patterns everybody will be doomed

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread Ron
On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 05:44:41 +0800 Robert Storey robert.sto...@gmail.com wrote: Which begs the question: should we just retire the mailing list(s) and start using the forum? Please dont; with a mailing list one can keep locally the messages that seem interesting, for later reference. If you

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, Just me being picky here. On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:35 AM, Martijn Dekkers devuan-li...@dekkers.org.uk wrote: The flip side is those that say don't split the lists - there again is no significant cost to subscribing to both both lists, and follow and participate in both lists if they so

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-07 Thread Martijn Dekkers
we could perhaps tie the dev list in with notifications from jenkins, gitlab etc to give a good general overview of whats moving On 7 April 2015 at 09:45, Franco Lanza next...@nexlab.it wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 09:25:47AM +0300, Martijn Dekkers wrote: Hi, I know this has come up a

[Dng] dev-list

2015-04-07 Thread Martijn Dekkers
Hi, I know this has come up a few times in the past, but I would really like to see a dev specific list, with some strict dev-only rules. The Drama-to-Noise ratio is getting pretty high pretty frequently, and IRC just doesn't work for many people. pretty-please? I am happy to donate time, effort

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-07 Thread Jaromil
On Tue, 07 Apr 2015, Martijn Dekkers wrote: we could perhaps tie the dev list in with notifications from jenkins, gitlab etc to give a good general overview of whats moving ok, but please keep patient a little while more because the preparations of the alpha release are in the way, once

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-07 Thread Martijn Dekkers
awesome, many thanks! On 7 April 2015 at 14:11, Jaromil jaro...@dyne.org wrote: On Tue, 07 Apr 2015, Martijn Dekkers wrote: we could perhaps tie the dev list in with notifications from jenkins, gitlab etc to give a good general overview of whats moving ok, but please keep patient a

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Martijn Dekkers devuan-li...@dekkers.org.uk wrote: I know this has come up a few times in the past, but I would really like to see a dev specific list, with some strict dev-only rules. I disagree, this will mean the devs will self-segregate and tend to ignore

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 01:09:55PM -0700, Go Linux wrote: On Tue, 4/7/15, Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt wrote: Subject: Re: [Dng] dev-list To: dng Dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 2:19 PM On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Martijn Dekkers devuan-li

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-07 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Wed 08 April 2015 01:45:20 Jürgen Buchmüller wrote: I'd love to see ancient, unwritten, yet useful rules being adhered to on Quote relevant parts of the original message. Cut out irrelevant stuff. +: Use proper quotes; no TOFU and no HTML, ever ta! /j signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-07 Thread Robert Storey
Good point. But I thought the reason for the suggestion was because of the amount of fairly useless chatter on this list that the devs have to wade through. (Honestly, it annoys me too.) If there is a -dev list, I would sign up to see what's happening but it's unlikely I would participate

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-07 Thread Jürgen Buchmüller
Am Dienstag, den 07.04.2015, 20:19 +0100 schrieb Nuno Magalhães: I disagree, this will mean the devs will self-segregate and tend to ignore users. Having both camps in the same list evens each other out. I'd love to see ancient, unwritten, yet useful rules being adhered to on this list then.

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-07 Thread Jude Nelson
suggest that Pottering is evil, Definitely looking forward to this stopping. Seriously, it's not Lennart's fault that Debian decided to switch to systemd. If you want to blame anyone for this, blame the CTTE, the DDs who voted against init freedom in the GR, and the systemd fanbois who

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-07 Thread Martijn Dekkers
All good points. However, having a -dev list really does have some significant benefits. - Firstly, as already mentioned, it allows for the chatter to be separated from the work. - Secondly, it allows for aggregating commit and update messages from gitlab, jenkins, the infrastructure at large

Re: [Dng] dev-list

2015-04-07 Thread Apollia
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Robert Storey robert.sto...@gmail.com wrote: Good point. But I thought the reason for the suggestion was because of the amount of fairly useless chatter on this list that the devs have to wade through. (Honestly, it annoys me too.) Sorry if I added to