On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 09:58:20PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, Thanks Richard for starting this discussion. It should come as no surprise that I'm all for de-duplicating DebConf technical infrastructure and lists should be a low-hanging fruit of that (non-trivial for sure, as this discussion shows, but still it seems a good starting point). > Also we really want to be able to create lists for debconf-bids as well as for > miniconfs. And we would like to be able to do so without a long discussion (ie > the period for debconf14 bids ends in 5 months, so it would be hurtful to > discuss two month now, whether a debconf14-panama mailinglist would be useful > or not. All in all, it seems to me you're saying here that the DebConf team would like to have some sort of freedom in approving (some well-known sets of) debconf* mailing lists. Which is understandable. As it is understandable that Debian listmasters reserve the right to decide upon the creation of lists on lists.debian.org, in general. Hence I guess the issue here is simply spelling out a list of namespaces, where listmasters decision is simply based on what the DebConf team needs. According to this discussion, the namespace seems to be debconf-* and debconf??-*. Of course the above say nothing about how long will it take to create the lists: listmasters are volunteers as debconf team members are. But maybe --- and that would be the ideal outcome of any deduplication effort --- some debconf team member will end up volunteering to help list masters initially for debconf-* lists and, in the future, who knows for what else :-) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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