Re: The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list

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On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 05:55 +0100, dexter wrote:
> On Tue August 26 2008 04:51:30 Chris Tyler wrote:
> > This list, fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx, is one of the first lists that most
> > Fedora users join, and therefore quite important to the community.
> > However, it's a high-volume list (and is sometimes perceived to have a
> > high noise level), so many veterans of the Fedora community aren't
> > subscribed.
> >
> > As the result of discussion at the last public (IRC) board meeting, it's
> > been proposed that narrow the scope of this list a bit. The current
> > description of this list simply reads:
> >
> >    fedora-users: For users of Fedora
> >
> > The proposed replacement is:
> >
> >    fedora-users: Help and support for using the Fedora distribution.
> >
> > Feedback on this proposed change is welcome.
> >
> > In addition, this list has been without an owner. Paul Frields and I
> > have assumed ownership of the list, and we'd welcome one or two
> > experienced members of the community to join us.
> >
> It's good to see board members prepared to mix it with the great unwashed 
> (err: users) but some questions:
> Is their an irc log of this public meeting?? I missed it.
> In this New low volume list, what & who is off topic. 
> How will this 'Help and support' take shape. 
> More details/disscusion needed. 

No one implied this would be a low-volume list.  Exactly the opposite;
the high volume on fedora-list can continue unabated, but there's a
better idea of what's on topic -- problems using Fedora, and how to fix
them.

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