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

[Xavier Bestel]

On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 06:53 -0700, Lane Brooks wrote:
> On 01/27/2011 05:56 AM, Tim-Philipp Müller wrote:
> > (Looks like that got sent off unfinished, so here goes the rest:)
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think we should move our mailing lists to freedesktop.org,
> >
> > 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?
> >
> 
> A lot of projects have an -users list for user related 
> questions/discussion and a -devel list for development discussion.

... and I think for projects like Gst where users are developers it's a
flawed way. Witness gtk-devel which is regularly the landing spot for
plain users which just want to know how to use Gtk+.
I think a better name for gst developers is called. Something like
gstreamer-hacking.

	Xav