[pkg-go] debian-go mailing list

[Clément Hermann]

On 09/07/2018 15:49, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 3:05 PM, Clément Hermann <nodens at nodens.org
> <mailto:nodens at nodens.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 25/06/2018 14:33, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>     > 
>     > 
>     > On June 25, 2018 11:55:54 AM GMT+05:30, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg at debian.org <mailto:stapelberg at debian.org>> wrote:
>     >> Ah, thanks for pointing that out. We already have
>     >> https://tracker.debian.org/teams/pkg-go/
>     <https://tracker.debian.org/teams/pkg-go/> apparently. What is the
>     >> maintainer
>     >> address in that entry being used for?
>     >>
>     > 
>     > From what I guessed, the current team is auto created (or some one created it manually) from the current maintainer email address (alioth).
>     > 
>     > It may be enough to start using team+pkg-go at tracker.debian.org
>     <mailto:team%2Bpkg-go at tracker.debian.org> for new uploads to come
>     under this team. But its better to confirm with someone who knows
>     more about tracker.
>     > 
> 
>     In case people missed it, there was a post on d-d-announce from Raphael
>     Hertzog describing the features of the tracker in this regard:
>     https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/07/msg00001.html
>     <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/07/msg00001.html>
> 
>     So, to summarize: it was indeed auto-created; it is usable as maintainer
>     address, and can even be used as a discussion list but messages aren't
>     archived.
> 
>     IMO, it would be nice to use this as a maintainer address and have all
>     the "cruft" (notifications and such) messages going to it, while keeping
>     a proper mailing list (maybe asking for one @lists.debian.org
>     <http://lists.debian.org>) for
>     discussion.
> 
> 
> The start of this thread was the fact that our
> debian-go at lists.debian.org <mailto:debian-go at lists.debian.org> mailing
> list was created :).
>  
> 
> 
>     Actually, even if we don't use the tracker, I think it would be nice to
>     separate the notifications from the discussion - at least it would ease
>     my own workflow ;)
> 
>     Thoughts ?
> 
> 
> Sounds reasonable. Can you outline how we would migrate? Do we need to
> change the maintainer field to a tracker address? Would we communicate
> with the tracker primarily, and add debian-go@ for things that might
> interest the broader group?
>  

My proposal is that discussions take place on the mailing list. and the
informational message, that we don't need to archive since the
information is elsewhere, on the tracker.

I haven't given much thought to the migration path yet, there's no point
if I'm the only one thinking it would be better. Let's discuss first :)

Cheers,

-- 
nodens