xc/programs considered harmful

[Mike A. Harris]

Daniel Stone wrote:
> I agree that it's problematic, but in some cases[1] necessary.  I think
> that X.Org is sufficiently sheltered from these cases by distributors,
> being the first point of call for all problems, to be able to function
> with a single list.
> 
> The last -arch mail was in October, AFAICT.  So I'm not entirely
> convinced of the need for its continued existence.  (Despite my efforts,
> I have been unable to resubscribe to for some months.)

The X.Org mailing lists that are hosted _at_ X.Org are still using 
archaic software, which is non-simple (compared to the defacto standard 
GNU mailman) to subscribe to.  The average person going to subscribe is 
more likely to run away frustrated than to actually sign up.  Last time 
I mentioned this, I was told someone would look into fixing it (Leon?), 
but it doesn't seem that it is ever going to get resolved unless someone 
in the community just goes ahead and sets up GNU mailman lists for X.Org 
"arch" and other lists on freedesktop.org.

Daniel, since you admin the fd.o machine mostly, could you create new 
mailing lists for each of the X.Org lists that exist now, and make 
announcements in the relevant places about them, so we can get people to 
migrate to the new lists?

I suspect it'd take less than 20 minutes max on the fd.o site. 
Aparently GNU mailman isn't ported[0] to whatever OS the x.org site is 
hosted on.  ;o)

Merry Christmas


[0] Yes, I know mailman is written in python, which is ported to every 
OS known to mankind.  Sarcasm my friend, sarcasm...