New project mailing lists

[Khem Raj]

> On Oct 13, 2015, at 9:12 PM, Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 11:34 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> On Oct 13, 2015, at 10:39 AM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 10/13/15 12:36 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Oct 13, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> what will this achieve that oe-devel can’t do ? people are already subscribed to oe-devel
>>>> and prefixing with [architecture] prefix might be enough. We already use subject prefix filters on oe-devel
>>>> messages.
>>> 
>>> The discussion was that most of us are filtering out oe-devel to the things we
>>> care about.. and thus missing architectural discussions..
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> It seems we want a new list for convenience which could otherwise be another filter on someones list ?
>> oe-devel is far reaching then this new list would be, Its important to get opinion from developers
>> and users who are at fringes of project too. If they don’t reciprocate, atleast they have the information
>> thats being discussed. It will also have good learning for new folks who are looking out to learn about
>> OE without much effort of advertising the new list.
>> 
>>> Architectural being more then just meta-openembedded, or oe-core... but layer
>>> index, and other things affecting the overall infrastructure and architecture of
>>> OpenEmbedded.
>> 
>> yes thats all part of open embedded
>> 
>>> 
>>> At this point, I think a new list is the best answer..  while I don't really
>>> want a new list -- the reality is without it a lot of us are going to miss
>>> relevant discussions.
>> 
>> with a bit of discipline we can have it right. IMO its more important to let community have the convenience
>> then few who can not set filters.
> 
> A quick poll of people in the room in Dublin suggested that near enough
> everyone is having information filtering issues with the current lists.
> There was also confusion about where archtiecture type discussion should
> happen with some people thinking it was "core", some "oe-devel".
> 
> I appreciate that someone can filter by whether the mail contains
> patches, equally I know I've missed the right magic prefix off on
> occasion.
> 
> There is also a group of people who just don't want to see patches, they
> do however want to see discussions about the architecture itself
> changing. Expecting each one of these people to setup their own filters
> is unrealistic.

this might be an acceptable reason.

> 
> So whilst "another list" is something which at first seems less than
> ideal, there was a strong consensus of agreement in the room that when
> you looked at the different options, it was the least worst alternative.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
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