Re: Mailing list policy
>
> > 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 put hamm out of the door, and user
> > again being asked to move unstable questions off debian-user.
> >
>
> How about a user mailing list for each release - eg debian-bo, debian-hamm,
> (debian-rexx??) with debian-user being a synonym for the current stable
> release.
Could I say I _really_ like this idea? (maybe with the little change
of debian-user being the sum of all old releases + the current release).
I like it mostly because of the clarity it creates: finally I
really know where the various questions should be asked.
If this is turned into policy, I do hope that debian-devel is still
a very different list from debian-hamm: debian-hamm would be about
user-oriented questions in the hamm release, whereas debian-devel
would be for development related questions (about hamm, or maybe bo
security fixes or whatever).
> In a similar way debian-unstable could be a synonym for debian-hamm.
Yes!
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