[arch-dev-public] Scope of arch-projects mailing list

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On 03.02.22 12:53, David Runge via arch-dev-public wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> while trying to use the arch-projects mailing list for an announcement I
> realized, that it is (probably?) not really supposed to be used for
> that at the moment.
> 
> It explicitly states to be used for development discussion and providing
> patches for dbscripts, devtools, mkinitcpio, namcap, netctl, archweb and
> pyalpm.
> 
> It seems that apart from netctl none of the above really make much use
> of this anymore though when it comes to development, as the projects
> have pivoted towards merge/pull requests on their respective VCS forges.
> 
> Unless there are any objections, I propose to
> 
> * add arch-repo-management and arch-release-promotion to it

Sure.

> * change arch-projects to *also* become a general discussion list around
>    the above mentioned Arch Linux projects

Ok.

> * extend mailing list "about" section with information on how each
>    project prefers to receive patches (e.g. I do not want to use the
>    mailing list for that, but others may)

Yeah that's probably good.

> 
> Rationale:
> We lack a mailing list that revolves around our internal projects and
> which can also be used by non "elevated users" (such as Trusted Users
> and Developers) for more general discussion.
> Given the very low traffic on the arch-projects mailing list I see no
> issue with it becoming a per-project discussion list as well (as in our
> case mailing lists seem to be mainly used for discussion and not so much
> for development anymore these days).
> 
> Best,
> David
> 

I think that makes sense. Go for it!

Sven
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