Are 'dev' and 'users' mailing lists sufficient? (was Re: [mythtv-users] Talking to more than one backend)

[Chris Delis]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:03:28AM -0600, Andrew Close wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:43:50 +0000, Simon Kenyon <simon at koala.ie> wrote:
> > we have two mailing lists
> > 
> > dev and users
> > 
> > maybe it is time to go for some finer granularity
> > 
> > install - issues installing the software
> > announce - annoucement of new releases
> > bugs - posting of bugs/fixes
> > hardware - issues with hardware
> > discuss - general discussion/fluff
> > software - issues running the software
> > 
> > comments please
> 
> instead of creating multiple lists maybe it could be requested of
> posters to tag the subject of their email with the above tags.  ie,
> <install> - compile issue with current CVS...  or <hardware> - when
> will we see drivers for PVR-500? ;)

Or, perhaps just ask users to be a little bit descriptive in their
subject headings? :-)

--Chris


> 
> then users of the list could just filter based on the subject tags.
> it wouldn't be perfect, but it wouldn't require everyone to subscribe
> to multiple lists or have to deal with cross-list posts as much.
> 
> just my $.02
> :)
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