Why Hoary and why *now*?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 05:54:55PM -0500, walt wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 14:44 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > There has been some discussion about a separate mailing list for Hoary
> > testers, but I'm not sure whether that makes sense or not.
> 
> I think a separate email list for Hoary testers would be a good idea. I
> have stable Warty on my laptop but unstable Hoary on my desktop. We
> don't want to scare people off by talking about broken packages etc,
> even if we are talking about Hoary and not Warty.

The key consideration in deciding to split a mailing list is the
intersection, rather than the difference.  The discussions which would fit
either list are the ones which will suffer by being divided.

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 - mdz