Re: [Fsfe-uk] [Proposal] Mailing lists

[MJ Ray]

On 2003-10-24 11:38:24 +0100 Alex Hudson <address@hidden> wrote:

> So affs-discuss would be better labelled affs-procedures, or 
> something.

affs-devel perhaps. It only turns into a "bog," "exclusive club" or 
"impenetrable" if we let it and yes, we do need to guard against that. 
I think that proposals, requests for comments, project construction 
and so on still need to happen in some open form. A mailing list seems 
a reasonable way to do it.

> We already have a purpose. Discussion of free software matters in the 
> UK
> is what fsfe-uk is here for.

That is your opinion, not the description of this list (yet).

> Development of software is a completely different task. AFFS is not a
> task, it's a tool. It's a tool to develop free software in this 
> country.

I think there's some mileage to be got from treating AFFS as a tool 
and developing it with similar methods to other tools that we work on. 
I know there's theoretical work going on about that, but I'd like to 
put it into practice. We need to discuss things more, but we also need 
to stop discussing these things forever and do more stuff. So I'll now 
do as I say and shut up on this until new stuff comes along.

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