New project mailing lists

[Philip Balister]

On 10/13/2015 01:28 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 October 2015 13:03:40 Philip Balister wrote:
>> At OEDEM we talked about creating a list:
>>
>> openemebdded-architecture - Discussions about overall OpenEmbedded
>> Architecture and status
>>
>> Any objections to the name and description? I'd like to ask Michael to
>> set this up.
> 
> Seems like a bit of a mouthful, and I am a little concerned about yet another 
> mailing list diluting the audience, but then the consensus at the meeting did 
> seem to be that we need another one. I don't really have a better alternative 
> name, FWIW.
> 
> I will say that if we are creating a new mailing list, we need to be *crystal 
> clear* about where people should send questions or problems (and patches), 
> particularly when they are doing so for the first time - given that this is 
> already a problem with the current number of lists.
> 

I agree, that is why I wanted to ask the full TSC for thoughts before
talking with Michael about the actual creation. I jsut want to make sure
we do not forget.


>> Also, in the spring at OEDAM we talked about a security list. I think we
>> should ask that list be created under the yp domain as security will
>> involve developing tools that do not cleanly fall into the build system
>> space (Tools to validate your build system). I sent Sona an email to see
>> if the list was created, my impression is there have been discussions,
>> but no list. This came up when some people had a security discussion and
>> I suggested they join this group.
>>
>> I propose:
>>
>> Yocto-security - Discussions about tools and techniques to improve
>> embedded system security.
> 
> This did already get created:
> 
>   https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto-security

Thanks, I did a quick look and didn't find it. I emailed Sona, but no
response (not surprising given I didn't wait and TZ).

Philip

> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
>