[gst-devel] Let's move mailing lists to freedesktop.org!

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

(Looks like that got sent off unfinished, so here goes the rest:)

Hi,

I think we should move our mailing lists to freedesktop.org, for two
reasons:

1. it's the only bit of GStreamer infrastructure still on SourceForge
(we host code and website on fdo, bugzilla on gnome.org and mailing
lists on SF), and our "project identity" is freedesktop.org-based. It's
just less confusing.

2. we've had reliability problems with the SF mailing lists, some of
which we don't expect to be able to get sorted out in the near future,
if ever (ie. the SourceForge mail servers regularly reject commit mails
coming from the fdo mail server because they receive infected mail from
that host they believe to contain virus attachements).

So, in detail:

gstreamer-announce => gstreamer-announce at lists.freedesktop.org
gstreamer-bugs     => gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
gstreamer-cvs      => gstreamer-commits at lists.freedesktop.org
gstreamer-openmax  => gstreamer-openmax at lists.freedesktop.org

gstreamer-daily    => unused, don't move


These two I'm not sure about - obviously we want to move them over, but
maybe not in the current form:

gstreamer-devel    => gstreamer-devel at lists.freedesktop.org (?)
gstreamer-embedded => gstreamer-embedded at lists.freedesktop.org (?)


First the -devel list is a bit of a misnomer, because we don't really
use it at all for development purposes. Maybe it should just be renamed
to gstreamer-discuss?

The list is fairly high traffic and high noise, so it would be nice if
there was a way to split it up a bit, but I can't think of something
suitable. Maybe there should be a -newbies list? Or an app-development
vs. plugin-development list? But then that's unlikely to change the
quality or overall volume of the posts, so maybe there's not so much
point.

As for the gstreamer-embedded list, do we want to keep it? It seems to
have some traffic, but many questions are just cross-posted to -devel
anyway and embedded topics haven't moved from -devel to -embedded, nor
do I have the feeling that some kind of distinct embedded community has
developed there. I haven't compared the subscriber lists though to see
if people subscribed to -embedded are mostly subscribed to -devel as
well.

 Cheers
  -Tim