[Bug-stow] [Help-stow] RFC: rationalisation of Stow mailing lists

[Jakukyo Friel]

Good idea. (Based on the traffic, maybe even two lists are sufficient? 1. info 2. devel&users)

On Sunday, December 4, 2011, Adam Spiers  wrote:
> [This has been deliberately cross-posted to 3 lists; please reply to all.]
>
> Hi all,
>
> We currently have four mailing lists for stow.  Given the extremely
> low traffic, I think that's at least one too many.  Here are the
> subscription statistics:
>
>   info-stow:  26 (of which 7 appear to be list archivers)
>   help-stow:  21 (of which 6 appear to be list archivers)
>   bug-stow:   19 (of which 5 appear to be list archivers)
>   stow-devel: 21 (of which 6 appear to be list archivers)
>
> There is a large amount of overlap in subscribers between the lists,
> and I suspect that most of the discrepancies are due to spreading
> ourselves too thinly and not making it clear what belongs where.  For
> example, if you want to discuss an idea about a new way of using Stow
> (and this has happened to me and one other person in the last few
> days), it's not really a plea for help, or a bug report, or a
> development topic, or an announcement, so not of those four lists are
> named in a way which suggests that your post belongs in that list.
>
> Therefore I propose the following:
>
>   - Keep info-stow as an announcements-only list (this seems to be
>     the GNU convention for info-*).
>
>   - Keep stow-devel as a developers-only list.
>
>   - Merge help-stow and bug-stow into a new `stow-users' list.
>     Technically speaking, this would involve closing the two old
>     lists, creating the new one, automatically signing up all human
>     subscribers of the old lists to the new one, and informing the
>     mail archivers of the change.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
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