[Pkg-cups-devel] RFC: Forming a Printing Task Force (was RFA: cups -- Common UNIX Printing System)
Jonas Smedegaard
jonas at jones.dk
Sun Jul 25 06:49:35 UTC 2010
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:44:26AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:29:01PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
>> Le samedi 3 juillet 2010 14:16:12 Jonas Smedegaard, vous avez écrit :
>> > 1) Decide on a mailinglist
>>
>> I propose to use "Debian Printing Group
>> <debian-printing at lists.debian.org>" as mailing list (that would be an
>> adoption/friendly-takeover from gutenprint).
>
>No, that's already the intended purpose of the list. Gutenprint has
>the list as the maintainer, but it's by no means restricted to
>gutenprint--that's just because the package was intended to be group-
>maintained (it's looking for a maintainer if there are any takers,
>since I no longer have hardware to test new uploads).
>
>> That list already receives mails from various cups-related bugs and
>> the only package that has it as Maintainer is gutenprint, which is
>> orphaned. I tried to contact Roger Leigh (the previous maintainer of
>> gutenprint, author of the O: mail) on IRC (on the #debian-printing
>> channel), without success so far. He is CC'ed in order to get his
>> opinion on this.
>
>Go right ahead. When the list was originally set up, the CUPS and
>hplip packages were subscribed to debian-printing by myself, but IMO
>that was a mistake in hindsight. It would be best to unsubscribe them
>if there are no objections--people wanting to follow these packages
>should probably just subscribe to the respective lists and/or packages.
>This will reduce list noise and duplicate mails for those already
>subscribed personally.
Excellent!
I dare consider that decided, then.
I will now unsubscribe from the CUPS mailinglist - and expect future
cross-package printing related topics to instead be posted at
d-printing, without the need for cross-posting.
Reply-to for this email set to d-printing.
Regards,
- Jonas
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