Discussion between distributions: support from freedesktop.org?

[Vincent Untz]

Hi Lucas,

Le jeudi 04 octobre 2007, à 11:12 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit :
> (Re-sending after subscribing to the list)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm involved both in Debian and Ubuntu development, and I'm often
> frustrated by how little I know about the other distributions. After
> discussing this in a blog post[1], I got the impression that I wasn't
> alone in that case.
> 
> [1] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=250
> 
> So I decided to do something about that, and to go ask the other
> distributions' developers a few questions about their distro, their
> packages, how they work, etc. I got quite a lot of very interesting
> anwers from Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Gentoo and Mandriva.
> 
> I haven't published them yet, because I'd like to wait until I know what
> to do next. I'd like to create a mailing list, where distributions
> developers interested in discussing with developers from other distros
> could subscribe, and ask questions. It would also be a good idea to have
> some "static" reference page, but a wiki page would clearly be enough.
> It seems to me that fd.o is the best place for this.
> 
> Could you run a mailing for this ?
> 
> Could I a few pages on wiki.freedesktop.org for this ?

I think it makes sense, even if it's a bit broader than the desktop
itself. Having a specific instance of the wiki for this is probably a
good idea too (like xorg.freedesktop.org).

Vincent

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