Re: New Mailing list

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

On ส., 2005-08-27 at 11:33 -0700, Brad Taylor wrote:
> Hi Ross,
> 
> Thanks for replying -- I was worried there that my post would be lost in
> the ether.
> 
> > I'm not sure about this one. According to our (basic) rules, cowbell
> > qualifies in that it looks like a fairly established project, but on the
> > other hand we'd like to avoid setting up (and maintaining/archiving etc)
> > lots of GNOME lists that can't be hosted elsewhere.
> > 
> > http://live.gnome.org/NewListRequest
> > 
> > You seem to have the other aspects of the project happily hosted
> > elsewhere (svn/web/bugs etc), so I'm just curious as to why you are
> > looking to host your list on gnome.org?
> 
> The main reason is the exposure.  Hosting a project on gnome.org gives
> it instantly thousands more eyes than hosting it on my own site, not to
> mention the collaboration possible with such a distributed environment.
> Hosting cowbell myself is nice, but its definitely showing its
> limitations when others want to help out.
> 
> If it would make it easier, I can move my bug tracking over to b.g.o,
> but I was just trying to minimize the amount of work to you guys :).
> 

OK, sounds fine to me. I've created 'cowbell-list gnome org'. You should
have received the admin password by e-mail.

Regards,

--
Ross