On 2016-10-29 19:52:09, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > This might be a bit a crazy idea, but what do people on -cloud think > about moving vmdebootstrap development discussions from its Alioth > list to debian-cloud@lists.debian.org? > > I have two reasons for suggesting this: better spam filtering, and > more exposure to and feedback from vmdebootstrap users. A third, but > admittedly weaker reason would be to have more cross-pollination > between different image creation tooling. > > It seem to me that lists.d.o has much better spam filtering than > Alioth does. I'd like to benefit from that. > > While I realize that not everyone on -cloud uses vmdebootstrap, and > that vmdebootstrap is not only for virtual machines, I think -cloud > has most of the users and as I gear up for making reasonably large > changes, I think it would benefit development to get feedback from any > planned changes as early as possible rather than only after the > changes have been implemented and included in a new release of > vmdebootstrap. I fully agree and even that I didn't try vmdebootstrap it's on my list to do. > Here's how I would implement this: > > * Change documentation to refer to -cloud instead of the Alioth list. > * In the next upload, use -cloud instead of the Alioth list in the > Maintainer field. This would mean bug reports come to -cloud as > well. > > The Alioth list has been rather quiet, except for spam, so I do no > expect a large amount of extra mail to -cloud. > > So, what do you think? Good idea? Bad idea? I think it will put vmdebootstrap development into wider audience which we can benefit from as well, thus I think it may be a good idea. -- |_|0|_| | |_|_|0| "Panta rei" | |0|0|0| -------- kuLa -------- | gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x686930DD58C338B3 3DF1 A4DF C732 4688 38BC F121 6869 30DD 58C3 38B3
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