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

Wed Apr 3 15:04:29 CEST 2013

On Wed, 03 Apr 2013, Oliver Burger wrote:
+
+> 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...
+
+That's 5 in a short time, with none of them with a good reason to be
+sent privatly to packagers instead of on the mailing list or forum.
+
+It also exclude from discussions the people who are subscribed to the
+mailing list, but not officially packagers.
+
+In my opinion we should keep the packagers at group alias for rare emails
+when we need to reach all packagers for something important only, and
+it should not be used to replace the mailing list.
+
+