Re: List split?
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 4:38pm, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:18:34PM -0800, Ryan Lovett wrote:
> > Now that debian-amd64 is successful enough that newbies have managed to
> > get it working, could the list be split into something like -user and
> > -devel? I'm more interested in the development of the port and not other
> > (still important) issues like how to get GNOME/KDE/networking/etc.
> > working on amd64 which have dominated the list of late.
>
> Shouldn't most of those go to the regular debian-user list?
When Debian officially adopts us eventually, a d-u equivalent is where the
user-level stuff should go, but right now d-u is pretty much useless because
all the AMD64 users are on this list. :)
Seriously though, d-u's traffic is so high, I long ago gave up on it, even
when I was still running i386. I don't know what the "official position" is
on this, but I would prefer Debian keep the AMD64 specific user mailing list
(the developers OTOH, may *want* to integrate into the official d-d, I don't
know), since the regular d-u is now a de-facto i386-specific list. AMD64
users will just be drowned out on that list, forcing most of us to use
Subject headers to separate us, e.g. "Subject: [AMD64] xxx", at which point
you have to ask, why bother? For a long while to come AMD64 users are going
to have AMD64 specific issues/problems, so I believe we should keep our own
specific user list for now.
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