From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [78.47.116.26] (helo=drlauer-research.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LcOhq-0000bq-Vy for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:42:07 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.105] (e180139171.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.180.139.171]) by drlauer-research.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381BF58419A; Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:03:02 +0100 (CET) From: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer To: Using OE In-Reply-To: <49A56CE3.1060305@gefanuc.com> References: <49A513AA.9080201@gefanuc.com> <49A56CE3.1060305@gefanuc.com> Organization: Vanille-Media Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:38:55 +0100 Message-Id: <1235587135.2621.47.camel@andromeda> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Cc: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org Subject: Re: Discussion regarding the future of OpenEmbedded mailing lists X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:42:07 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Am Mittwoch, den 25.02.2009, 16:08 +0000 schrieb Martyn Welch: > Wolf, Josef wrote: > > Martyn Welch wrote: > > > > [ ... ] > >> There has been a proposal on the openembedded-devel mailing list > >> to re-organise the lists provided on openembedded.org. > > [ ... ] > >> Openembedded-devel - for humans to post patches and ask questions > >> Openembedded-commits - commits, bugs, logs, etc > >> Openembedded-private - core team > > > > To be honest, I am somewhat confused by the naming of the lists. > > If I understand correctly, the intent of the new lists are > > > > OE-private: core-team. > > All the other projects I know of would call this list > > FOOBAR-devel > > > > OE-devel: rest of the world. > > All the other projects I know of would call this list > > FOOBAR-users > > > > Is there any reason for this strange (that is: non-standard) naming > > scheme? Is OE-private meant to contain really private (confidential?) > > traffic? If not, I'd guess many people (like me) would mis-interpret > > the intent of this list. > > Yes - it is my understanding that the traffic on Openembedded-private is really private (I believe that OpenEmbedded is now legally registered as a non-profit in Germany and I should imagine there are certain discussions which need a degree of privacy). Correct, although it's not because of the e.V., but rather for companies who may want to contact us in order to get some work arrangements, but don't want to be disclosed. -- :M: