From: ridgway@ursula.gmcl.com (Douglas Ridgway)
Subject: Mailing lists at WineHQ
Date: 14 Oct 1998 04:38:18 GMT

I've created a couple of mailing lists for Wine work at WineHQ.
Subscription details are at http://www.winehq.com/cvs.html (summary:
mail -s subscribe listname-request@winehq.com). It's easy to create
more, but I want to hear about what people want.

Here's what I propose:

  wine-announce@winehq.com  -- read only, low traffic for announcing
                              releases and other major Wine or WineHQ news
  wine-devel@winehq.com     -- general discussion of Wine development,
                               including process issues related to WineHQ
  patches@winehq.com        -- for submitting and discussing patches
  wine-cvs@winehq.com       -- read only, high traffic list which announces
                               every commit

Of these, only patches and wine-cvs have already been created. You 
can't read the archives on the web yet.

Issues:

  o  Should patches get renamed to wine-patches for consistency?
  o  Are there other lists which should exist?
  o  Does having discussion lists at all compete with this newsgroup?
     Should there be some kind of gatewaying?

With respect to the newsgroup-vs-mailing list question, I tend to feel
that Usenet is slow and unreliable compared to mailing lists, but I
know that other people feel differently. It's possible to create
mirrored lists/groups (Mozilla does) but I'd rather avoid it unless
really necessary.

Let's start discussing what we want.

doug.
ridgway@winehq.com
http://www.winehq.com/