From: Edward H. <bi...@gm...> - 2011-01-27 14:33:14
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On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 12:56 +0000, Tim-Philipp Müller wrote: > (Looks like that got sent off unfinished, so here goes the rest:) > > Hi, > > I think we should move our mailing lists to freedesktop.org, for two > reasons: > > 1. it's the only bit of GStreamer infrastructure still on SourceForge > (we host code and website on fdo, bugzilla on gnome.org and mailing > lists on SF), and our "project identity" is freedesktop.org-based. It's > just less confusing. > > 2. we've had reliability problems with the SF mailing lists, some of > which we don't expect to be able to get sorted out in the near future, > if ever (ie. the SourceForge mail servers regularly reject commit mails > coming from the fdo mail server because they receive infected mail from > that host they believe to contain virus attachements). > > So, in detail: > > gstreamer-announce => gst...@li... > gstreamer-bugs => gst...@li... > gstreamer-cvs => gst...@li... > gstreamer-openmax => gst...@li... > > gstreamer-daily => unused, don't move > > > These two I'm not sure about - obviously we want to move them over, but > maybe not in the current form: > > gstreamer-devel => gst...@li... (?) > gstreamer-embedded => gst...@li... (?) > > > First the -devel list is a bit of a misnomer, because we don't really > use it at all for development purposes. Maybe it should just be renamed > to gstreamer-discuss? > > The list is fairly high traffic and high noise, so it would be nice if > there was a way to split it up a bit, but I can't think of something > suitable. Maybe there should be a -newbies list? Or an app-development > vs. plugin-development list? But then that's unlikely to change the > quality or overall volume of the posts, so maybe there's not so much > point. > > As for the gstreamer-embedded list, do we want to keep it? It seems to > have some traffic, but many questions are just cross-posted to -devel > anyway and embedded topics haven't moved from -devel to -embedded, nor > do I have the feeling that some kind of distinct embedded community has > developed there. I haven't compared the subscriber lists though to see > if people subscribed to -embedded are mostly subscribed to -devel as > well. In the past three years, there have been around 1300 mail on gst-embedded. In the equivalent period, there were over 13000 on gst-devel. I'd be fine with just having one mailing list for all gstreamer discussions. As for the name, gstreamer-devel is fine by me too. Edward > > Cheers > -Tim > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > gstreamer-devel mailing list > gst...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gstreamer-devel |