Re: Request for Ideas - Astronomy working group
Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:32:50AM +0100, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote:
>> I'd prefer debian-astronomy or -astrophysics. Otherwise we will have
>> discussions about the inclusion of astrology
>> software. debian-astrophysics may soound too professional and prevent
>> amateurs from joining. Probably the name is open for voting ;-)
>
> If you want to go the naive route about voting please be prepared to
> spend a lot of time with bike-sheders who *never* has done *any*
I just meant: let's discuss it here, and we take what most of the people
who want to contribute prefer.
In the moment it looks like "astro".
>> > A developer mailing-list such as debian-astro-devel@alioth would be very
>> > nice so we can all be in copy when each of us discuss something with
>> > upstream, for instance.
>>
>> debian-astronomy@alioth.debian.org?
>
> do you mean
> s/alioth/lists/
> or
> s/alioth/lists.&/
> ??
I didn't get this. -v please.
Once we get the name decided, I will request a new mailing list on lists.debian.org.
>> In the moment, I would not differ between users and developers, just
>> like debian-science (which also has no -devel).
>
> Just make sure you have a user oriented list (as debian-science) and
> a list that serves as the maintainer of the packages. I do not think
> that mixing up these two is a good idea.
Yes, I think the best way is as it is done for debian-science.
Best
Ole
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