From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:53:34 +0000 Subject: Re: For those interested in the Dreamcast Message-Id: <200901120753.36361.vapier@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="nextPart4625945.9XmBL2It2n" List-Id: References: <1231703328.6478.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1231703328.6478.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org --nextPart4625945.9XmBL2It2n Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 12 January 2009 03:40:08 Paul Mundt wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 08:16:54AM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 16:54 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 07:48:48PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > > > Veterans of the Dreamcast development community will recall we used > > > > to have a pretty good general mailing list, but it long ago fell in= to > > > > disuse. > > > > > > > > I know the community is much smaller now than before but it would be > > > > good to have a general list, so I have set one up. Please consider > > > > subscribing > > > > > > > > http://transpero.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dreamcastdev > > > > > > Please explain how more fragmentation in this area is going to help > > > anything. It seems like you are aiming for one mailing list per > > > dreamcast developer. > > > > > > Any OS specific stuff needs to go through the port-specific list, and > > > architecture specific issues can be cross-posted across those as well. > > > The only thing a dreamcast-specific list would be useful for would be > > > discussions of native development on bare metal that people don't see= a > > > good fit for anywhere else. However, even that stuff is likely margin= al > > > enough at this point that there is no reason to discourage such threa= ds > > > from popping up on the OS-specific lists. > > > > > > When you are already suffering from lack of activity due to your > > > platform being in its death throes, more mailing list fragmentation is > > > definitely not the answer. > > > > If you don't want to subscribe that is up to you. > > > > In the meantime this is not further fragmentation but the opposite - an > > attempt to (once again) have a single point where cross-OS issues could > > be discussed. > > You seem to have entirely missed the point about cross-posting being OK > for these situations today. The linux-sh list is certainly open to > cross-posting, regardless of whether people are subscribed or not, and > general architectural issues are certainly best discussed there. if people cant be bothered to find all the relevant lists, how about you=20 (Adrian) create an alias that simply expands to all the relevant lists ? a quick glance at netbsd archives indicates that the sh3/dreamcast lists se= e=20 very little traffic anyways ... =2Dmike --nextPart4625945.9XmBL2It2n Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJJaz1QAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBmU0QAKiIVPIK/GZ1cAeqx2JEdtH4 GOIS3RYrWcAuh4Z/cF/t+bsMzJRtHItpk1tqc7uoVV1m+qTnnYy1N+io8G92Dp2M FzG85BS17e5+48zvDID4DKrKIYHW4TJixLK3CsyMlmOkAtEiQNHgn9D4+DF0qCNS VsMs9RkaBE/gqadGt819kw7Uq7m4fST5KGs3KeMdxLLbphp4WLMo3eNzatTkFhd1 5jy7BePr3tgiwIB6yFiEerUsQyw+H5Cd2783drHqwa0F2y5tXLb7Z91YmAT8e/kT xIXu3+/uxK8dWnBP+gtIytbRg1cGvFZmph8xH+B9M1e4UsI+obuFuMBt2U7WauRw 8spr89weV3AlYW2c8UQfOmhdeaZp0zDfdRSvxG6f6Zl++wKGnuyr3P7a49+YTxc/ 3IZxQ5wAMDU4eBpgKZqcVdBBoHM0bhr7ROqrVKJvapm3RMdfm669RlLfzz1qtN8A 92LTHynESB0d2mNrTI3uVp4XXmVxw3tgk6GuudXCNhhqiykA2BGtgiP0nCqfK5Y0 mBw+lbE64cgo0/seYeI7xFGPcnEpjJFaQmDceeYSYPk5d6170pJv5WsLlVL6IJ/m Bol48RR4Oi7ULaJZyl6Pt9MWKAZyTodzuPjnZYSuluFfQbCmqIMPyqTHmBnWkkqp +k2lsor5n9LbpRBZR8Tj =VhJd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4625945.9XmBL2It2n--