Re: signal-to-noise on d-d-l

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Luis Villa">

> What's particularly sad is that two years ago d-d-l /was/ a pretty high
> signal/noise list- lots of good, important development conversations, and
> it was a good list for any relative newbie who wanted to understand what
> was going on. I think any healthy project that wants to think of itself as
> a single project needs a main list- d-d-l has been that list, and is in
> danger of splintering, which sucks.

Much agreement from the cheap seats. I have had some suggestions coming
about this:

  * The gnome-hackers/gnome-private/gnome-hackers-readonly mess should be
    unfucked, it should be open for all to read, post and subscribe (except
    gnome-private), and it should be the recommended place for cross-project
    discussions - the 'main list' you mentioned above. I totally agree with
    that idea.

  * desktop-devel-list should go back to being for discussion and management
    of the GNOME Desktop release and modules *only*.

  * A developer announce list should be created for announcement of major
    changes, documentation, release management stuff, and so on. The only
    reason I haven't created this already is that I didn't want to make big
    changes mid-release, and I haven't decided on a name. ;-) I'm thinking
    devel-announce-list or something. We should open this and subscribe
    everyone on d-d-l to it when we open 2.7.

Some of this is inter-related with release management changes I'd like to
propose, but I'm holding off a bit on that because we need people thinking
about the current release right now, and I didn't get it out earlier. BUGS
BUGS BUGS!

- Jeff

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