X.Org Foundation Establishes New List Facility: lists.x.org

[Ely Levy]

and we'll keep xorg to talk about the weather?
80% of the talks on xorg at fd.o are developement related,
it would have made much more sense to make xorg-support for the support
mail and leave xorg at fd.o as devel list. I understand that people want the
xorg devel list to be @x.org but I find it weird people rather to hide it
behind weird excauses instead of saying it out loud.
Why not end this with moving xorg at fd.o into xorg-dev at x.org?
Then people could stop making new mailing lists every 4 hours.

btw it's not really the first time people tried to move the development
discussion back to @x.org from experiance I expect either xorg or
xorg-arch to become a preety dead list I would bet my money on xorg at fd.o
though.


Ely Levy



On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Egbert Eich wrote:

> John McCutchan writes:
>  > On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 11:37 -0500, Leon Shiman wrote:
>  > > [snip]
>  >
>  > Are all these new lists really worth it? Splitting up the discussion
>  > across lists isn't the right decision. For one, the xorg list doesn't
>  > have that much traffic already. More importantly this will isolate
>  > conversations that shouldn't be isolated from each other. The xorg list
>  > has been doing a great job of providing a single point of communication,
>  > why change it?
>  >
>
> I don't think this is the intention. I would expect that technical
> discussions will eventually migrate over to the 'arch' list - so that
> the arch list becomes something like a 'devel' list on other projects
> - while xorg remains a discussion list for general issues, support
> questions and may be some low level day to day developers discussions.
>
> At the end of the day it's the community who will decide how things
> will be organized.
>
> I don't think it is planned to fork discussions away from one of the
> general lists as long as the volume of traffic on a particular issue
> doesn't warrent this. Certainly working groups would want to give
> their cause a large audience before they decide to split off.
> Avter all there is no use for having a one man show where someone
> is basically babbling to himself on a separate list.
>
> Either model - one big list and several small ones - have their
> merits.
>
> Egbert.
>
>