Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!bridge2!mdb From: mdb@ESD.3Com.COM (Mark D. Baushke) Newsgroups: gnu.config Subject: Re: Purpose Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 89 18:05:58 GMT References: <8911150658.AA00254@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <1989Nov16.142657.11437@talos.uucp> Sender: news@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM Distribution: gnu Organization: 3Com Corp., Mountain View, CA. Lines: 53 In-reply-to: kjones@talos.uucp's message of 16 Nov 89 14:26:57 GMT On 16 Nov 89 14:26:57 GMT, kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones) said: Kyle> Therefore I suggest: Kyle> 1. Put the announcement groups under gnu.announce, e.g. Kyle> gnu.announce.emacs, gnu.announce.gcc. This is a good idea. Kyle> 2. If it is acceptable to have discussions in the *.bug groups (I'm Kyle> still not sure), then I suggest removing the .bug trailer, i.e. Kyle> gnu.emacs.bug becomes gnu.emacs, gnu.gcc.bug becomes gnu.gcc and so Kyle> on. Leave the .bug extension. It is more obvious that bug reports should be posted to such a group. Kyle> The result would be (if discssion is not allowed in .bug groups) Kyle> gnu.announce.emacs <--> info-gnu-emacs Kyle> gnu.emacs Kyle> gnu.emacs.bug <--> bug-gnu-emacs Kyle> etc. This sounds good to me. As an alternative to a group , there could be a .d group so that folks DON'T post bugs to . (Not that there is any way to really stop folks from posting to the incorrect group.) I would also favor the existence of a new 'sources' group for user contributed emacs source extensions (I would expect the majority to be lisp). This could also be the group to post the diff files for version upgrades. gnu.emacs.sources If an entire hierarchy for sources is preferred, maybe this would be better: gnu.sources.emacs gnu.sources.d gnu.sources.gcc etc. In any case, it would be VERY nice to have a single group that could be archived which has all of the contributed sources that are not a part of the official GNU distributions. Should groups which are not official mailing lists be only newsgroups or gatewayed to mailing lists? I would hope the answer is that they be both. -- Mark D. Baushke mdb@ESD.3Com.COM