Re: address@hidden mailing list

[Clark J. Wang]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:

> Chet Ramey wrote:
> > Clark J. Wang wrote:
> > > Chet Ramey wrote:
> > >     I just created help-bash@gnu.org <mailto:help-bash@gnu.org>.  I
> hope
> > >     that it becomes the list where
> > >     folks ask questions about bash and shell programming.  Please
> socialize
> > >     its existence and subscribe if you like.
> > >
> > > So the "About bug-bash" description should be updated accordingly.
> >
> > Maybe, but I don't admin that list, and it's not attached to the bash
> > project on Savannah.
>
> Hmm...  That's interesting.  It isn't attached to Savannah.  I will
> try to figure out why not.
>
> In the meantime this is what I changed the description of bug-bash to
> say.  The last paragraph saying "There are no other GNU mailing lists
> or gnUSENET newsgroups for BASH." has been removed.  The last two
> paragraphs in the below were added to replace it.
>
>  This list distributes, to the active maintainers of BASH (the Bourne
>  Again SHell), bug reports and fixes for, and suggestions for
>  improvements in BASH.  User discussion of BASH also occurs here.
>

My understanding is Chet wants "User discussion of BASH" to go to
help-bash@gnu.org so I think "User discussion of BASH also occurs here."
should be removed from here. Or people will be confused which list they
should post to.


>   Always report the version number of the operating system, hardware,
>  and bash (flag -version on startup or check the variable $BASH_VERSION
>  in a running bash).
>
>  The help-bash@gnu.org is a different list for discussion of bash and
>  shell programming.
>
>  General questions and discussion about GNU utilities may also be
>  conducted on help-gnu-utils@gnu.org.
>
> And in a similar way I added the following description to help-bash.
>
>  Bash is the GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell.  This list is for
>  asking questions about bash and shell programming.  Also available
>  is htlp-gnu-utils@gnu.org for general questions about the shell
>  utilities.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Bob
>
>