Re: [gNewSense-users] RFC: New gnewsense mailing lists?

[Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix -]

Danny Clark wrote:
> On IRC discussion there seemed to be general consensus that gNewSense
> was ready for a gnewsense-dev mailing list, since a lot of the
> gnewsense-users traffic is starting to be actually user-oriented (yay
> users!).
+1
> Also there are several unfortunately long threads going on about the
> Lemote/MIPS development where instead of any list it's just a bunch of
> individuals cc:ed; I want to avoid this for the majority of
> conversations, as it's exclusionary, hard to reference, and makes it
> harder for new people to get involved.
>
> Would anyone have objections or alternative suggestions to the creation
> of address@hidden
no objection or other naming, I can speak on behalf of me and anyone who 
wants me talk on their behalf :))))
> We may also want to create something like address@hidden for
> discussion of only builder [1,2]; it might be useful to not have
> "gnewsense" in the name as builder may eventually also be used to create
> distributions based on Debian GNU/Linux that are modified in the same
> way gNewSense modifies Ubuntu GNU/Linux, and those distributions may not
> be named "gNewSense" to avoid user confusion.
that would not be productive at this time, personally I would wait for 
the right "offtopic traffic" to move it we don't have it as yet, however 
it should most likely move to the -dev list for the time being

there are implications for the web site in this ;-)



> For that matter builder was originally created with the intention that
> it be used to create other Ubuntu derived distributions named something
> other than gNewSense, so that list could be used for those if they
> appear as well.
>
> Disadvantage of this list would be possibly too much dilution / too many
> mailing lists, so I would esp. like feedback on this one.
>
> Also, would people find something like Gmane [3] but hosted on
> gnewsense.org (perhaps as a replacement for the current forums) useful?
> Free Software such as mail2forum [4] provides this functionality.
>
> [1] Create Your Own Distro
> http://www.gnewsense.org/Builder/HowToCreateYourOwnGNULinuxDistribution
>
> [2] Our Builder generates our repositories and liveCD
> http://www.gnewsense.org/Builder/Builder
>
> [3] Gmane: gNewSense Lists
> http://dir.gmane.org/search.php?match=gnewsense
>
> [4] m2f: connecting communities
> http://mail2forum.com/
>
> Cheers,
>
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