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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/05/2012 06:38 AM, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On 02/05/2012 12:27 PM, Christian Berendt wrote:
> > Hello together.
> >
> > I think it's a good idea to create a mailinglist for packaging specific
> > topics. This list here is IMO not the right place for discussions on
> > such topics, because a lot of people have to read (or at least they
> > have to filter those mails into /dev/null) them and this will waste a
> > huge amount of time, which could be spend more useful topics.
>
> I don't think the amount of traffic on cross-distribution packaging
> related collaboration would be that high to really be a problem on this
> list.  I'd rather not have to sign up for yet another mailing list.

Hi Christian!

So, the topic of multiple mailing lists has come up before and we've 
even tried topical mailing lists before, but the amount of traffic on 
them tends to be too low for it to be worth the extra ML subscription. 
I've also made the argument before that with a general mailing list 
(this one), you get a wider audience and people that may not always get 
excited about distribution specifics may be exposed to important 
discussions, learn something new, and in general just be made aware of 
the state of a particular subcommunity by scanning/skimming emails.

After all, it's easy enough to just delete/archive emails that you 
really don't care about -- or create filters.

When posting distribution-specific topics to the main mailing list, just 
use the convention "[TOPIC] Discussion subject" as your email subject. 
So, something like:

[DISTRO] Common place to house RPM-based distro artifacts

That way, it's easy for folks to ignore if they don't wish to follow the 
conversation.

All the best,
-jay