The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Chris Tyler <chris at tylers.info> wrote:
>
> This list, fedora-list at redhat.com, is one of the first lists that most
> Fedora users join, and therefore quite important to the community.
> However, it's a high-volume list (and is sometimes perceived to have a
> high noise level), so many veterans of the Fedora community aren't
> subscribed.
>
> As the result of discussion at the last public (IRC) board meeting, it's
> been proposed that narrow the scope of this list a bit. The current
> description of this list simply reads:
>
>   fedora-users: For users of Fedora
>
> The proposed replacement is:
>
>   fedora-users: Help and support for using the Fedora distribution.
>
> Feedback on this proposed change is welcome.
>
> In addition, this list has been without an owner. Paul Frields and I
> have assumed ownership of the list, and we'd welcome one or two
> experienced members of the community to join us.


I would support this. And would even go as far as merging it (somehow)
with fedoraforums.org with the explicit purpose of "help and volunteer
support".

However, we have to commit to policing the list for noise removal.


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