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[Edward Holcroft]

On 27 Mar 2006, at 2:10 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote:

> hi,
> Am Montag, den 27.03.2006, 13:56 +0200 schrieb Edward Holcroft:
>> This is an  artificial distinction. Are developers not users? Can a
>> user not be a developer? How would you expect the content of mails to
>> differ between these lists?
> sure he/she can, but edubuntu is the only ubuntu distro that only has
> this one list, all other follow the namig scheme of having -users,
> -devel and the localized lists
>
>> What would be the purpose of such a split? It's not like this is a
>> busy list. Usually one considers this when a list becomes too busy to
>> follow, although it would have to be really busy to be too much for
>> even a moderately experienced list user.
> the idea behind the split as i understood it in the pre-last edubuntu
> meeting was to give users that are scared by the -devel name
> an
> opportunity to communicate, i agree that the list is *very* low  
> traffic
> and not restricted to -devel problems at all, but the name doesnt
> indicate that.
>>
>> So I guess  vote "no" to a split as currently mooted.
>>
>> If there just has to be split for some reason, then I would suggest a
>> "technical" list, and a "chat" list. A discussion about whether the
>> list should be split for example, would fall under "chat".
> thats exactly how lists are split in the ubuntu world, a chat list
> "-users" and a tech list "-devel" for every ubuntu based distro out
> there :)

If that's the distinction, then I think we are in agreement around  
the purpose of such a proposed split.

But would good names for a technical list and a chat list not be  
technical and chat respectively?

ed

>
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