Re: GNATS development services moved to gnu.org

[Chad C. Walstrom]

Milan Zamazal <address@hidden> writes:
> + address@hidden (formerly address@hidden)
>     A low-to-middle volume mailing list where anything related to
>     GNATS can be discussed (development, help, questions, suggestions,
>     etc.).

Michael Richardson wrote:
> I find this very counterintuitive.  I don't really think that we need
> endless support questions on what was the -devel list. 

Originally, gnats-devel was the only list that was suitable for posing
questions, suggestions, or general discussion.  True, the -devel implies
that development related discussions predominate the list, and
help- implies that help questions predominate.  We really didn't have a
whole lot of traffic on gnats-devel to begin with.  If traffic picks up,
most likely after the release of v4, you can always elect to start up
yet another list for devel-only discussions. 

Personal preference would have directed me to make (keep)
gnats-{devel,user,announce,cvs} lists instead of
{help,info,commit}-gnats, but GNU seems to have a precedence with this
naming convention.  For example, it'd be a lot easier to find the gnats
related lists at http://www.gnu.org/pipermail/ were they prefixed with
the software name instead of the list topic.  Regardless, a list is a
list, and it's really not that big of a deal.

BTW, I'm getting pretty excited to see GNATS v4 coming together! ;-)

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