Re: [Freedos-devel] Consolidating the FreeDOS lists

[Jim H. <jh...@fr...>]

Jeremy would like to keep freedos-cvs and freedos-kernel, but I think 
it's safe to assume we can close down the other lists I mentioned.

I'll comment out freedos-devel-net, freedos-freecom, and fd-doc-list 
from the FreeDOS Mailing Lists page.  If no further objections, I'll 
close down these 3 lists via SourceForge over the weekend.  Please move 
discussion threads from those lists to freedos-devel.


The lists that will remain open are freedos-cvs, freedos-kernel, 
freedos-user, freedos-devel.  The FreeDOS-32 developers have their own 
freedos-32-dev list, and I'll still link to them from our pages.


-jh




Jim Hall wrote:
> Sorry for the cross-post, but I wanted to make sure people knew about 
> the other list before I made changes.
> 
> I've noticed that traffic on several of our lists has decreased to the 
> point of a trickle.  It's been suggested to me that we try to 
> consolidate lists, to re-invigorate discussion among FreeDOS developers 
> and focus discussion to relevant development topics.
> 
> Closing down some of the lists in order to funnel new users into a 
> common discussion area does seem to be a good move right now.
> 
> I copied the list traffic stats into a spreadsheet so I could look for 
> trends.  See http://www.freedos.org/jhall/temp/traffic/traffic.png
> 
> 
> It's pretty clear that freedos-user, freedos-devel, and freedos-32-dev 
> are our most active lists.  The others have declined in traffic since 
> about Sept 2004, if they had any traffic to speak of.  That means the 
> lists to close down would be freedos-devel-net, freedos-kernel, 
> freedos-freecom, freedos-cvs, and fd-doc-list.
> 
> So, I'd like to close down these 5 lists, and just have all traffic go 
> to freedos-devel.  What do you think?
> 
> -jh
> 
> 
> 


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