[Etherboot-users] Restructuring Etherboot mailing lists

[Marty C. <md...@et...>]

Alright,

Now that the LinuxWorld forms and contracts are filled out and faxed  
in, let's get back to other stuff.

I'm sending this to both lists because there may be some people on  
the Etherboot-Users list who are interested in helping out with stuff  
that is sort of "Developer-ish".

I'm really not a fan of having two lists, unless one of the lists was  
Etherboot-Announce, and the other one was Etherboot-Discuss.  The  
problem with Etherboot-Users and Etherboot-Developers is that it  
segregates people by what they do, and not what they are interested in.

What I mean is, Users vs. Developers asks people to either be a  
developer or a user. Coders vs. Non-Coders, basically.  Discuss vs.  
Announce asks whether you want to hear the discussions or just the  
result (releases, major changes).  And even the Announce list might  
be pushing it.  It would probably get used only for releases.

We just don't have the volume of traffic so that it's too big a deal  
to ignore some messages.  Further, digest-mode is available on  
SourceForge, for those who like to skim.

So, I ask.  Does anyone have an opionion (for or against or neutral)  
about merging the Users and Developers lists?  There are about 150  
people on Etherboot-Developers, and 362 on Etherboot-Users.  I'm  
guessing that most developers are on the users list, so that would  
leave about 200 people who might be on users alone.

For now, I'd like to keep the GPXE discussions (which will start  
soon) on the Etherboot list(s), until we the code base has diverged  
more from Etherboot-5.4.  Those of you who have been around long  
enough will recall that Etherboot started on the Netboot mailing  
list, and it was quite some time before it became separate.

Your thoughts and ideas --  and everything you contribute, be it  
testing, documentation, help on the mailing lists, coding, hardware,  
donations, are all appreciated very much.

Many thanks,

Marty

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