Break up mailing list archive by months

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:12:38AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:

...

>  - Shifting to calling the project just Bazaar, as we've done on the new
>    web site

This switch is new to me, will 0.9 also be Bazaar, or is that still for
2.0?

>    This implies probably forwarding the old address, copying the
>    archives, copying across the subscriber list.  It may cause some
>    disruption for users who e.g. filter mail depending on the list name.
> 
>  - Creating separate user and developer lists
> 
> The first makes sense but perhaps isn't worth the disruption in its own
> right.  (Plenty of lists have historical names.)  But perhaps it's time
> to do the second - the developer traffic is so high that it's probably
> pretty hard for people just using the system to subscribe, and there do
> seem to be a number of people who'll answer user questions but might not
> want to read every code review.

I'm usually firmly against fragmentation, but I agree the traffic is
rather high. Your point about the high barrier is interesting, I'm
looking forward to how the -user list will develop.

> So I propose that, next month:

<sensible plan>

Wouter van Heyst