Re: Mailing list policy
On Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 01:48:00PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> * Underinformed technical discussions, often involving nondevelopers
> or developers who are amongst the less technically excellent of our
> volunteers.
That was very carefully phrased.
> * No postings from nondevelopers. Nondevelopers should post to
> debian-user. If a separate non-queries list for nondevelopers is
> required (eg for political discussions) it should be created.
I don't agree with this. I think non-developers can have a legitimate
interest in the future (technical) direction of the project, particularly
people thinking of becoming developers.
> * Technical policy threads to be referred to debian-policy (which has
> lower membership and higher technical standards). When a decision
> comes back from debian-policy and is questioned we can point to the
> archives for rationale to avoid repeating arguments.
I agree, but I fear that if all the policy threads from here went to
debian-policy the result would just be that all the people who are
contributing to them here would subscribe to debian-policy.
> * No requests for assistance unrelated to package maintenance. These
> should go to debian-user. (Ie, `how do I get dpkg-dev to do XYZ'
> is OK, but `how do I get pppd to do PQR' is not.)
I agree.
> The remaining item on my list of problem threads/postings, flamewars
> about `political' issues, does truly belong in debian-devel
Does it? It makes debian-devel less useful as a place for discussion of
technical issues.
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