Morgan Collett wrote: > On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 15:23, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I've raised the idea a couple of times to have a mailing list >>> specifically for activity developers, which would be uncluttered by >>> all the traffic on the devel and even sugar lists. That would >>> hopefully have the result that people stay subscribed, or at least >>> notice mails which are important to them. >>> >>> Currently, I'm not even sure which list out of devel and sugar is >>> going to reach more activity developers, hence this cross-post and >>> many others. > > I've been looking at the OLPC wiki, to see what we are advising > contributors to sign up for: > > * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program#Project_Hosting points > to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_hosting which says subscribe to > devel@ when asking for project hosting. > > * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program#Expectations_of_Recipients > points to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers/Communication#Minimum_Communication_Requirements > which says subscribe to community-news@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So IMO the sugar list is more relevant, but the devel list is more > likely to reach everyone. Cross-posting to every list all the time > seems counter to netiquette, and as > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting says, "if all messages were > crossposted to every group, then every group would look exactly the > same." > > What I want out of this discussion is a clear recommendation for > activity authors to subscribe to a particular place that we can count > on, to the extent that that is possible. >
We can have them subscribe to devel and apply filters (via the mailman web interface) to use predefined "topics" (regexps) that, for example, contain the string "breaks-python" or whatever. -FFM _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar