Re: Mailing list policy
Hi,
>>"Bdale" == Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> writes:
Bdale> In article <[🔎] 87yb09erzb.fsf@npreyer.eou.edu> you wrote: : One
Bdale> source of increased traffic is from non-developers (like me)
Bdale> who : are using hamm: we're told to ask questions about hamm on
Bdale> debian-devel : rather than debian-user.
Bdale> Why? Who told you that? This class of question seems clearly
Bdale> to belong on debian-user.
Actually, a number of people have been chastised for asking
hamm related question on debian-user )more so early in the
release cycle than now, I think. I think it was routinely stated that
debian-user was for user questions, but hamm was a development branch
and questions shoul be directed to debian-devel.
As we come closer to a release, hamm is converging towards a
user release, the distinction has become blurred; nevertheless, we
can't just asbout face and dress down people for asking questions
about unstable on debian-devel; at least, not unless we formulate
some kind of a policy and stick to it.
I can see people objecting to the public being harangued by
unstable horror stories after we pudh hamm out of the door, and user
again being asked to move unstable questions off debian-user.
manoj
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