Openness: Apache as a guiding model (was Re: GFS removed??? )

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Thu Mar 17 20:02:45 UTC 2005


On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:53:55AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 20:41 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > This sounds more like fedora-packaging, or would you have a
> > distinctive mark for the differences fedora-packaging vs
> > fedora-maintainers (the former being a normal open list). Yes, there
> > are too many lists at Fedora and making them closed or read-only does
> > not help.
> 
> Not exactly.  Fedora-packaging was a list space tossed up to
> discuss/create an authoritative packaging guideline for
> Core/Extras/Legacy/etc..

OK, then I guess the discussion should have happened there and not
fedora-maintainers.

> Again, smaller the number of participants w/ stakes the faster
> decisions can be made and implemented.  Not all the maintainers are
> interested in such discussion, so why add noise?  A lot of
> maintainers just want a guideline to be created, so they can follow
> it.  Different topics.
> 
> Personally, I like that the lists for Fedora are being clearly
> segregated.  This allows me to keep better track of the subjects I
> actually care about by subscribing only to those lists.  Big general
> lists mean that I have to sift through tons of email I care not about to
> find (and usually miss) something I DO care about.
> 

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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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