separate discussion and development lists

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:08:20PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> 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:
> > 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 also think this is a good idea.

-edrz