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

[Edward Hervey]

On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 12:56 +0000, 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, 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.

  In the past three years, there have been around 1300 mail on
gst-embedded. In the equivalent period, there were over 13000 on
gst-devel.

  I'd be fine with just having one mailing list for all gstreamer
discussions. As for the name, gstreamer-devel is fine by me too.

    Edward

> 
>  Cheers
>   -Tim
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)!
> Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free!
> Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires 
> February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! 
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d
> _______________________________________________
> gstreamer-devel mailing list
> gstreamer-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gstreamer-devel