Alternative Init System

[Tristan Wibberley]

Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> 
>> The wiki is terrible for discussion, and long CC lists are unmanageable. 
>> Can we have a mailing list for ubuntu community members to discuss their 
>> development plans, then they can be posted to ubuntu-devel when a 
>> solution presents itself.
> 
> What's wrong with the sounder list? It gets less traffic than
> ubuntu-devel, and fits description.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ describes sounder as being 
the "Ubuntu community random chit-chat list" and ubuntu-devel as being 
for "Ubuntu Developer Discussion". From these descriptions, the 
alternative init design and implementation discussion would be ontopic 
for ubuntu-devel and offtopic for sounder.

http://www.ubuntu.com/community/lists says that "The ubuntu-devel 
mailing list is for highly-technical discussions and implementation 
details regarding current development on Ubuntu." I "current"ly have 562 
lines towards a prototype, which I have written in the odd spare hours, 
and I am continuing to work on it solely for the benefit of Ubuntu until 
I have something useful.

I find the topics of the various ubuntu lists to be very opaque, 
constantly waiting to find out whether some new subject is allowed or 
not. The lists I have used seem to be extremely low volume except 
ubuntu-users, and I suspect it is because very little seems to be on 
topic, or very few community members feel comfortable contributing. I 
would appreciate some clearer direction before I post, instead of 
finding out afterwards all the time that I have wandered off of the 
unwritten limitation of topicality.

<tongue-in-cheek>Or perhaps, when the listinfo says that ubuntu-devel is 
for "Ubuntu Developer Discussion" does it mean only certified "Ubuntu 
Developers" should be discussing these sorts of things, and that "Ubuntu 
community random chit-chat" means community members should stay put in 
sounder?</tongue-in-cheek>

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Regards,
Tristan Wibberley