Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 21:32:38 +0100 From: "Josip Rodin" <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> To: joey@infodrom.north.de, rainer.dorsch@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de, Subject: Re: debian list summaries On 14.12.1998., at 12:02, Martin Schulze wrote: >Rainer Dorsch wrote: >> I am wondering, if there is somewhere a comprehensive Debian lists >> summary report. Something like the Debian section of http://lwn.net >> but more comprehensive. I am sure there are many people, who would >> like to read news about their distribution, but have not the time or >> bandwidth ro read the 20+ follow-up article threads in debian-devel or >> debian-whatsoever. > >I don't know about lwn but we have debian-announce and debian-news >which cover news about debian. There is also debian-devel-announce >but I can't say what it is/was used for and when it was last used. > >If you want to receive more information, could you summarize the issues >you would like to be informed? Maybe something could be arranged. Maybe we could arrange that somebody occassionally (every week or so) posts to debian-devel-announce some important messages or collections of messages (in one) that describe current talks on debian-devel. For example, some collected information (quotes) from current discussion about project leader candidates. Or a tip about someone uploading packages for stable distribution. Or a revision of the stable distribution, etc, etc... Of course, all that with a disclaimer like this: "Please do NOT reply to this message on this mailing list, rather on debian-devel or to the mentioned posters. If you think you misunderstood something, wish to find out more on this/these topic/s, or include yourself in the discussion, PLEASE subscribe to debian-devel, or read the lists archives at this URL: here-is-the-url ). All the neccessary information about (un)subscribing and posting to mentioned mailing lists can be found at this URL: here-is-the-url ." That way, those maintainers (and other people too) who don't have time/money/will/sth to read debian-devel (and there sure are many of them) can at least be informed about what is happening. And with the disclaimer we'll surely avoid overwhelming that list and ensure nobody spreads FUD because he thinks that those few lines were all there was said about the subject. Well, maybe not, but still the FUDer would look *really* lame and wouldn't be taken seriously by anyone. There are a few questions: is debian-devel-announce meant to be *only* for important announcements for developers, is it on purpose very very low volume, is it 'world-writable' (anyone may post), and can the Followup-To: header be used to redirect possible replies to poster, or -devel (I know this is effective when used on usenet)? And yes, I volunteer. -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org