[sugar] Proposal: Activity developers mailing list

[ffm]

Morgan Collett wrote:
 > On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 15:23, Morgan Collett 
<morgan.collett at gmail.com> wrote:
 >>> I've raised the idea a couple of times to have a mailing list
 >>> specifically for activity developers, which would be uncluttered by
 >>> all the traffic on the devel and even sugar lists. That would
 >>> hopefully have the result that people stay subscribed, or at least
 >>> notice mails which are important to them.
 >>>
 >>> Currently, I'm not even sure which list out of devel and sugar is
 >>> going to reach more activity developers, hence this cross-post and
 >>> many others.
 >
 > I've been looking at the OLPC wiki, to see what we are advising
 > contributors to sign up for:
 >
 > * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program#Project_Hosting points
 > to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_hosting which says subscribe to
 > devel@ when asking for project hosting.
 >
 > * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program#Expectations_of_Recipients
 > points to 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers/Communication#Minimum_Communication_Requirements
 > which says subscribe to community-news@ and devel at .
 >
 > So IMO the sugar list is more relevant, but the devel list is more
 > likely to reach everyone. Cross-posting to every list all the time
 > seems counter to netiquette, and as
 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting says, "if all messages were
 > crossposted to every group, then every group would look exactly the
 > same."
 >
 > What I want out of this discussion is a clear recommendation for
 > activity authors to subscribe to a particular place that we can count
 > on, to the extent that that is possible.
 >

We can have them subscribe to devel and apply filters (via the mailman 
web interface) to use predefined "topics" (regexps) that, for example, 
contain the string "breaks-python" or whatever.

-FFM