separate discussion and development lists

[Thomas Maass]

Am Dienstag, den 17.08.2010, 12:08 -0400 schrieb Felipe Sateler:
> On 17/08/10 11:58, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 20:15:40 (CEST), Andreas Tille wrote:
> > 
> >> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:10:45AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >>> Perhaps? My biggest concern is that with 3 lists, it becomes more and
> >>> more challenging to decide to which list to post. Replies to -vcs mails
> >>> currently go to -maintainers because of the reply-to, so I guess that
> >>> would remain. But what about discussion mails on -maintainers, that are
> >>> supposed to go to debian-multimedia at l.d.o? This overhead of
> >>> meta-discussion about a topic being ontopic or offtopic is the price I
> >>> see for having a third list. (it could be mitigated with a proper and
> >>> clear charter, I imagine).
> >>
> >> For me the maintainers list is way to noisy and I guess a lot of users
> >> will see it the same way.  Moreover I'm afraid that just because of the
> >> name of the list as well as the location users will not even consider
> >> subscribing this list (as I would never have done if I would not
> >> explicitely asked to raise the Blends topic here).  IMHO we have no
> >> proper place to discuss the issues of multimedia users inside Debian and
> >> that's a pity because we might loose users (and potential developers)
> >> because of this.
> > 
> > I've had a small private followup conversation with Andreas about
> > this. He basically came up with the suggestion to turn
> > debian-multimedia at lists.debian.org from a *development* oriented mailing
> > list to a *user* focused list. This way users can share their thoughts,
> > concerns and kudos.
> 
> I thought this was the idea the whole time?
> 
> > 
> > While I don't think that this will significantly lower the amount of
> > traffic (well, we actually widen the set of topics), I still think that
> > it will be benefitial for pkg-multimedia, because:
> > 
> >  - we get more contact with our actual users
> >  - we learn what's pressing and bugging them
> >  - we hopefully get more potential and real contributors, ideally even
> >    new developers
> > 
> > 
> > WDYT?
> 
> Every time I think about it, I like it more. I think we should do that.
> And announce it to the world via d-d-a.
> 
> 
I am new to this list and I can share your thoughts.
Some posts are to get lost in the huge amount of posts.
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