[Mageia-dev] what's the purpose of this list ?

Wed Apr 3 14:37:30 CEST 2013

Le 03/04/2013 13:33, Oliver Burger a écrit :
+> I do think it is important to have contact addresses. Not only mailing
+> lists, you have to subscribe.
+> It's the only way to get questions and feedback from people who only
+> have a simple question or feedback to give and don't want to subscribe
+> an ml for that which they would have to unsubscribe again after they get
+> the answer they are interested in.
+> The only question - as I see it - is, who should get those mails?
+> And I think the best idea is for the whole teams in question to get them
+> because otherwise you will have to find someone with too much time on
+> his hands.
+>
+> And by the way, just to state a number about the incoming traffic using
+> this mail address
+> All in all I found 5 - in words FIVE - threads in my gmail account,
+> which were addressed to the packagers@ address, including an mail from
+> bugzilla about a bug report complaining about the many mails, the
+> contributor gets that way...
+>
+> I have to wonder if that is not an allergic reaction to user interference...
+That's not a reaction to user inference, that's a reaction to have a 
+gazillion different ways to achieve the same result, whereas a single 
+workflow would offer better garanties of equal consideration.
+
+If the point of this adress is to allow end users willing to ask 
+question/request assistance/whatever, but consider that's not worth the 
+30s effort of subscribing a mailing list or creating a bugzilla account, 
+that's OK, as long as:
+1) it's documented somewhere
+2) people receiving those mails are volonteers to handle it
+
+Regarding 2, I'm not.
+
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #221:
+
+The mainframe needs to rest.  It's getting old, you know.
+