[oe] Discussion regarding the future of OpenEmbedded mailing lists

[Marco Cavallini]

Martyn Welch ha scritto:
>> 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).

IMHO this behaviour would appear like whether OE was yet another
company/competitor in the embedded market rather than an open source
project, achieving the opposite effect than expected.

/marco