RFC: splitting debian-project off debian-devel
As everyone here has probably noticed already, the traffic on debian-devel
has increased again. (My debian-devel mail folder for March 98 is 8.7 mb
large!)
I guess one of the reasons is that a lot of project related discussions
which have been hold on debian-private before, are now moved to
debian-devel. (It's good to have less discussions in private--but this
made debian-devel even harder to follow.)
The problem with having everything on a single list (the volume of
debian-devel is extremly large compared to the other debian-* lists) is
that is very hard to follow the important discussions only. (For example,
I was very busy the last weeks. I didn't had time to read all mails on
debian-devel, but I wanted to read at least the important threads about
the constitution. This was nearly impossible--even with a threaded mail
client--since such discussions don't use a single thread, but several ones
and very important mails are mixed between totally unimportant mails.)
Therefore, I'd suggest to split off a new mailing list from debian-devel,
namely `debian-project', where all project related discussions (e.g.,
Constitution, Maintainer DB) would be held. This mailing list would be
open to the public too (like debian-devel) and we could even start with
the same subscriptor list like debian-devel.
The new setup would allow people who are only intrested in the technical
stuff to subscribe to debian-devel only (I guess this applies for most of
the beta-testers or users of "unstable"), and would make it much easier
for the `busy Debian developers' who don't have time to follow every
single mail on debian-devel.
Comments are appreciated!
Thanks,
Chris
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