On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Andrew Farris wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > except that there are some of us who aren't interested in that > > information. > So your point is that you feel the community really needs to have list setup > such as below? > fedora-test-updates-list > fedora-test-release-list > fedora-devel-list um ... yes. if those lists represent different mandates, they should be different lists. > all of which relate to testing and development issues for packages > not yet released... but they don't, do they? as i have already pointed out *twice*, this very list is advertised as being devoted to development *releases*, not development *packages*. and that's why i subscribed. if i wanted to know about test *updates*, i'd be willing to subscribe to another list. > Email filtering? All update announcements originate from > updates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, you could simply not see any of them with > 2minutes of your time. why should it be necessary for me to filter the contents of a mailing list because the majority of its postings aren't relevant? and filtering doesn't do anything about the fact that all this irrelevant content ends up on my mail server anyway. > Splintering discussions about updates away from next release testing > will tend to also reduce cross-talk on related problems. Just my > 2c, thats a bad thing. *not* breaking that stuff off onto another list will *definitely* reduce feedback on test releases since i, for one, will unsubscribe from this list if it continues to tell me stuff i'm not interested in. if red hat wants to announce and get feedback on test updates, they can create a new list specifically for that and i can choose whether or not to *opt in*. i *don't* like the situation where i begin getting stuff i never signed up for, which requires me to *opt out*. see the difference? in any event, i've said my piece, and i'll abide by the decision of the powers that be. if the decision is to preserve the current situation, then i'll just unsubscribe. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
