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> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Brett Viren <<a href="mailto:bv@bnl.gov">bv@bnl.gov</a>> wrote:<br>
> Sylvestre Ledru <<a href="mailto:sylvestre@debian.org">sylvestre@debian.org</a>> writes:<br>
><br>
> > == Proposal ==<br>
> ><br>
> > I would like to propose the following:<br>
> > * move all packaging related discussions to<br>
> > <a href="mailto:debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org">debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org</a><br>
> > * use <a href="mailto:debian-science@lists.debian.org">debian-science@lists.debian.org</a> only for user oriented<br>
> discussions<br>
> > * make sure that all the commit mails are sent on<br>
> > <a href="mailto:debian-science-maintainers-commits@lists.alioth.debian.org">debian-science-maintainers-commits@lists.alioth.debian.org</a><br>
> ><br>
> > Any comments / opinions ?<br>
><br>
><br>
> FWIW, your proposal is more in line with what I thought<br>
> debian-science<br>
> was about when I joined. I haven't, personally, minded seeing<br>
> packaging<br>
> related discussions go by but I do think the two types of<br>
> discussions<br>
> would benefit from having their own venues.<br>
> +1<br>
> Benefit is we also get updates about packages and that is really<br>
> useful for us.<br>
> As Linux user cannot remain only user, need to do system admin level<br>
> work also for scientific packages.<br>
</div>Well, I do not consider that as always true. Software like R or Scilab<br>
can be used by normal users who do not care about packaging issues (or<br>
admin work). <br></blockquote><div>They do care when they found some thing is not working in particular version.<br>For example in Scilab 5.1.* versions there was graphics card compatibility issue. <br>Which was settle later on. When debian is maintaining the current latest version of scilab will be of interest of Scilab users.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im"><br>
> Second thing is, after making 2 separate list will there be increase<br>
> in the user level queries? At present there are hardly user related<br>
> queries.<br>
</div>I might be wrong but I feel like (it is the main idea behind this<br>
proposal) that <a href="mailto:debian-science@lists.debian.org">debian-science@lists.debian.org</a> is too geek and too<br>
packaging oriented for regular users.<br>
If I was a regular user of scientific software, I would have<br>
un-subscribed myself a long time ago since the ratio<br>
scientific/packaging questions is very low.<br></blockquote><div> Scientific software users generally subscribes to respective software mailing list.<br> Like I subscribed to Scilab mailing list. <br><br>Anyways, if you find it is useful to have 2 separate lists. No matter.<br>
One should watch out percentage of user relative queries and then decide to separate 2 mailing list.<br>One can change the name of current mailing list. It looks like most of the subscribers are interested in package related discussion. <br>
<br>Can have new mailing list for users. <font color="#888888"></font><br>Regards,<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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