> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Brett Viren <
bv@bnl.gov> wrote:
> Sylvestre Ledru <
sylvestre@debian.org> writes:
>
> > == Proposal ==
> >
> > I would like to propose the following:
> > * move all packaging related discussions to
> >
debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
> > * use
debian-science@lists.debian.org only for user oriented
> discussions
> > * make sure that all the commit mails are sent on
> >
debian-science-maintainers-commits@lists.alioth.debian.org
> >
> > Any comments / opinions ?
>
>
> FWIW, your proposal is more in line with what I thought
> debian-science
> was about when I joined. I haven't, personally, minded seeing
> packaging
> related discussions go by but I do think the two types of
> discussions
> would benefit from having their own venues.
> +1
> Benefit is we also get updates about packages and that is really
> useful for us.
> As Linux user cannot remain only user, need to do system admin level
> work also for scientific packages.
Well, I do not consider that as always true. Software like R or Scilab