Re: CC's on this mailing list
'Lars Wirzenius wrote:'
>
>Spam does make furious, extra Cc's from mailing lists don't. They
>just annoy me (see signature), and in theory they do cost me a bit.
>Not enough to make me worry about it, but enough to write kilobyte after
>kilobyte about it.
>
>I do wish that people wouldn't Cc me when I read the mailing list. I feel
>that it is good netiquette not to do that.
I like the CCs because lately I haven't been able to keep up with the
list and knowing that someone responded to something (which shows up
in my mailbox and not the procmail filter) is useful.
>This may be a mark that we or I don't think there is enough real problems
>with Debian. Hm, perhaps the three month release schedule is one: we have
>one month left for the next release, and we're just about to make a big
>change in source packaging? Perhaps it would be better to wait an extra
>month for this occasion only?
I don't think we have a good mechanism for "code cleanups" before a
major release. Instead, I think that sticking with "stable" releases
from upstream is the way to keep Debian stable. I like the three month
schedule, but feel it is mostly independent of maintainer issues.
Though perhaps we should save the source package changes for the
release after next month's?
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