[oe] Discussion regarding the future of OpenEmbedded mailing lists

[Philip Balister]

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 25.02.2009, 16:08 +0000 schrieb Martyn Welch:
>> Wolf, Josef wrote:
>>> Martyn Welch wrote:
>>>
>>> [ ... ]
>>>> There has been a proposal on the openembedded-devel mailing list
>>>> to re-organise the lists provided on openembedded.org.
>>> [ ... ]
>>>> Openembedded-devel - for humans to post patches and ask questions
>>>> Openembedded-commits - commits, bugs, logs, etc
>>>> Openembedded-private - core team
>>> To be honest, I am somewhat confused by the naming of the lists.
>>> If I understand correctly, the intent of the new lists are
>>>
>>> OE-private: core-team.
>>>             All the other projects I know of would call this list
>>>             FOOBAR-devel
>>>
>>> OE-devel: rest of the world.
>>>           All the other projects I know of would call this list
>>>           FOOBAR-users
>>>
>>> Is there any reason for this strange (that is: non-standard) naming
>>> scheme?  Is OE-private meant to contain really private (confidential?)
>>> traffic?  If not, I'd guess many people (like me) would mis-interpret
>>> the intent of this list.
>> Yes - it is my understanding that the traffic on Openembedded-private is really private (I believe that OpenEmbedded is now legally registered as a non-profit in Germany and I should imagine there are certain discussions which need a degree of privacy).
> 
> Correct, although it's not because of the e.V., but rather for companies
> who may want to contact us in order to get some work arrangements, but
> don't want to be disclosed.

And it is not a very exciting list either. No one is missing anything 
not being on it.

Philip
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