Re: New-maintainer proposal
Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> >
> > I will post the proposal for a new new-maintainer procedure to the
> > debian-project list shortly, If anyone is interested in joining the
> > discussion (or on any other non-technical discussion) please subscribe
> > to this list. You know the procedure :)
>
> Please keep this on devel as well. I don't have time to add another list
> to my chores. We need one (1) list that can be subscribed to, on which
> important traffic like this can be discussed. Multiplying the lists that
> _must_ be subscribed to, in order that I may be a contientious maintainer
> is simply crap, that fractures the group and keeps some segment of the
> maintainership uninformed. This lack of an informed membership is, in my
> estimation, a primary reason for all the confusion and conflict that is
> currently comming down about such things as new-maintainer.
I don't see any logic to this argument.
If you subscribe to -project and -devel, then you won't see any increase
in the amount of mail you have to deal with. You'll simply see the same
mail split over two lists. On the other hand, it will hopefully be
better partitioned (making it easier to deal with if you filter your
mailing lists into separate folders, which I recommend), and people who
are not interested in 'project politics' can avoid subscribing to
-project.
Most (um.. this is a guess, I don't know) maintainers *aren't*
subscribed to -devel as it is, so you it certainly currently fails its
goal as a place where important traffic can be discussed.
Also note that some people may not consider this important traffic.
Some people may be content to trust that Wichert and the -project
readers will sort out the new-maintainer issue, while they get on with
developing...
Jules
(Painfully aware that this thread has every chance of growing huge and
wasting space with almost pointless discussion...)
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