On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 02:28:11PM +1100, Tyson Dowd wrote:
> I support a move to make debian-devel for the discussion of development
> of Debian (and thus should be largely, but not completely, posted to by
> developers).
>
> A new list (or more than one) to discuss other topics that routinely
> pop up here is necessary. Perhaps this kind of setup would help (with
> some example topics drawn from current lists).
>
> debian-user [..]
> debian-unstable [..]
> debian-devel [..]
> debian-discuss [..]
This is actually a good split of -devel I think. The question then
becomes how do you get people to use the new lists as appropriate?
> But I think closing the lists is extreme -- by providing appropriate
> forums we can encourage people to post to the right place, instead of
> banning them from posting to the only place available.
I do think removing certain people (read: trolls) would not be a bad
idea. I've kept my mouth shut on the rest of this thread because I have
no opinion on closing the lists to non-developers. I posted to the list
before I was a developer and I think some of my input then was rather
useful. I was one of the people who "came up with" the package pools
idea. (it was really about 3 of us tossing ideas back and forth that
created it)
In my own defense I may have written many messages this month to this
list, but I can't say many of them have been lacking in content. Take a
look at the entire device detection thread for example (something that
really interests me and that I've been spending a lot of time on)
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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer
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