[Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU mailing list changes

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU mailing list changes

[Stefan Weil]

Hi,

I suggest a small change of the QEMU related mailing lists
(see https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/):

Replace Qemu-devel by QEMU-devel, Qemu-trivial by QEMU-trivial,
and so on.

This matches the official project name which is QEMU (not Qemu).
As far as I know, there is no convention which prefers Qemu-devel,
and there are mailing lists on lists.nongnu.org with any kind
of upper and lower case mixed.

Mailing addresses are case insensitive and the links on the server
are lower case, therefore I expect that the change of the name
on lists.nongnu.org will work without much trouble.

Maybe some servers which mirror mailing lists could get confused
(if they inspect the name of the lists).

And of course the subjects of new mails would start with [QEMU-devel],
so case sensitive filters in private mail readers would need a trivial fix.

We could first rename one of the unused of less frequently
used lists (Qemu-commits, Qemu-stable). If that works well, the
rest can be renamed.

I'd also like to have descriptions of the QEMU related mailing lists.
The listinfo (link above) shows none today, but it could be added
easily by the list maintainer(s).

Regards,

Stefan Weil

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU mailing list changes

[Peter Maydell]

On 21 June 2012 19:37, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> wrote:
> I suggest a small change of the QEMU related mailing lists
> (see https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/):
>
> Replace Qemu-devel by QEMU-devel, Qemu-trivial by QEMU-trivial,
> and so on.
>
> This matches the official project name which is QEMU (not Qemu).
> As far as I know, there is no convention which prefers Qemu-devel,
> and there are mailing lists on lists.nongnu.org with any kind
> of upper and lower case mixed.
>
> Mailing addresses are case insensitive and the links on the server
> are lower case, therefore I expect that the change of the name
> on lists.nongnu.org will work without much trouble.

Technically, local parts in email addresses can be case sensitive
(it's a site decision whether they are). But you're proposing a
change to the Mailman 'real name', as I understand it -- the
'posting name' used in URLs and email addresses by mailman is
always lower case anyway, so it wouldn't change.

-- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] QEMU mailing list changes

[Sebastien Douche]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> wrote:
> Replace Qemu-devel by QEMU-devel, Qemu-trivial by QEMU-trivial,
> and so on.

I suggest to remove Qemu-devel, email clients can handle filtering.



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