closing down debian-multimedia alioth project and l.d.o list?

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 10:03:16PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Free Ekanayaka <freee at debian.org> wrote:
> > |--==> On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:45:07 -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <eric at zhevny.com> said:
> >  EDR> As mentioned briefly in the IRC meeting today, there is not much to
> >  EDR> discuss about whether or not to do this. I'm just curious to find out
> >  EDR> how to go about it.
> >  EDR> I imagine the list can't go away so long as any packages have
> >  EDR> debian-multimedia at l.d.o in Maintainers: field.
> >  EDR> As for the alioth project, I guess we need to see which, if any,
> >  EDR> packages remain to be moved.
> > There are quite a few still:
> > http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org
> > While I totally agree we should aim to eventually shut it down, I think
> > we can keep this as low priority, that means change the Maintainer field
> > of those packages slowly over the time when they actually need an
> > upload.
> I'm not active on the team, but I think you should keep both lists. In
> the Debian Games team we use debian-devel-games for discussion and
> pkg-games-devel for bugs/etc.

I also thought of something similar sometime after starting this thread.
Perhaps the l.d.o list could remain as a user help/discussion list and
the alioth list be reserved for development discussion. At the moment we
mostly have only developer discussions, it seems, but that could perhaps
change over time.

In any case, it seems there is no need for any immediate change.

-edrz