Re: Package mailing lists

[Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com>]

Hi Stefano,

> On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 07:41:27AM +0900, Iustin Pop wrote:
> >  Sorry for reviving and old email. To what extend do you think this
> >  should apply - even at individual package level?
> >
> >  I ask this because of the following: recently I had a 1-1 discussion
> >  with a co-maintainer of one of my packages, which went between our
> >  personal emails. I quite disliked this (since it will be buried in our
> >  mailboxes), but email conversations seem simpler than going through the
> >  BTS for all discussions.
>
> That's an interesting corner case, thanks for mentioning it.
>
> [...]
>
> I'm not sure how we can make it easier for small maintenance team to
> have a mailing list. Maybe starting archiving @packages.d.o addresses
> could be a first step?

Good question, I'm not aware of a master plan for our development 
collaboration infrastructure. One issue I see with this proposition is 
the loss of private contact channels that work for all packages (and 
should remain available for the vast majority of them).

For what it's worth, I don't see this problem as a "corner case", I 
think there must be a lot of exchanges that happen this way currently.