Re: Replying to posts

[Andrew Bernard]

Hi Johan,

On 29 April 2016 at 18:11, Johan Vromans <address@hidden> wrote:

> Well done. Now if David would be so kind to add this as the new subcribers
> welcome message. I have some remarks, but since he is the list owner he's
> to decide.

Is he? We do not know.

> Well done, Werner!
>

Werner’s guidelines are only one personal view and suggestion, and
they have not been ‘voted on’ or necessarily accepted yet. I for one
think a blend of the Debian mailing lists code of conduct, with
additions for lilypond specifics such as MWE’s, non-inline image
posting, what to do with code fragments, how to reply to digests and
so on is in order.

To put my money where my mouth is I am prepared to make a draft
recommendation for people to examine. An RFC, no less. :-)

Since this is the longest thread in recent memory - interesting
because it is a meta-thread really - I wonder if we should consider
using some forum type software for lilypond matters? The mailing list
has a flat structure, and I have long thought that we ought to have a
separate area for Scheme topics, Guile topics, installation issues,
engraving questions, and so on and so forth. Such sub specialities
which are not of interest to all users could have their own forum
topic area. Not a totally crazy idea. And dear me people could use
Markdown to format HTML posts. The forum could have the forum
guidelines posted permanently as per normal forum software. As to the
standard list question who would do the work, I would be happy to.

Andrew