Re: plan

[Barry deFreese]

Marco Gerards wrote:

> "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  
>
> > The consequences will be:
> > * The CVS module "pupa" will be "grub2" in the GRUB's CVS repository,
> > * We will use bug-grub instead of pupa-dev for general discussion,
> > * And, we will set up a web page about GRUB2 in the GRUB's web site.
> >    
>
> IMHO this is a good thing to do.  This will make it clear to people
> that PUPA is GRUB and what will happen to GRUB in the future, etc.
>
>  
>
> > I'm not sure if it is a good idea to use bug-grub for GRUB2. What do you 
> > think? Is it better to create another mailing list? I sometimes feel that 
> > bug-grub is used for too many different purposes.
> >    
>
> Well, I think the biggest problem isn't that PUPA and GRUB are
> discussed on one mailing list.  The biggest problem is that requests
> for help are send to bug-grub.
>
> For the Hurd there are multiple mailing lists: bug-hurd, help-hurd and
> hurd-devel.  Perhaps you could use something similar for GRUB.  I
> think having separate mailing lists is not practical because many
> discussions on pupa-devel are interesting for people on bug-grub too.
>
> Thanks,
> Marco
>
>  
I have to agree with Marco.  It's nice having -user or -help for 
questions, -devel for development and -bug for bugs in existing versions.

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