mailing-list reorganisation

[Rahul Sundaram]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> we discussed the "to many mailinglists" problem now and then in the
> past. Most of us are annoyed by it, so here is a proposed cleanup. Comments?
> 
> == Remove ==
> 
> === fedora-packaging-list ===
> 
> Packaging is important to all package maintainers. Everyone should get
> involved in the discussions and at least see the topics being discussed,
> thus do it directly on fedora-maintainers. Use a special tag like
> "[packaging]" to mark them if needed.
> 
> === fedora-buildsys-list ===
> 
> It's quite a quiet list -- maybe we should leave it open for now until
> the plague/brew and VCS stuff is worked out, and then simply continue on
> fedora-devel.
> 
> === fedora-extras-list ===
> 
> We should get rid of it when core merges with extras. Discuss the stuff
> on fedora-devel in the future.
> 
> === fedora-test-list ===
> 
> A lot of people don't get the difference between fedora-devel and
> fedora-test list. And testing is a crucial part of the devel process,
> thus lets drop the test-list.
> 

We have plans to post automated test suite results to the fedora-test 
list on a daily basis once it is setup. I am not sure whether the 
traffic for a merged list would be in a approachable level.

Rahul