Re: Comedi mailing list is moving [2]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:55:25AM -0700, Nick Winlund wrote:
> Correct by the stale facts but incorrect in terms of
> the logic of impartiality.

Well, we wouldn't want facts to get in the way of analysis.

I make no claims to be impartial.  I run a for-profit company
that makes (some) money off Comedi.  Most Comedi services are
run on computers and bandwidth privided by that company.  It's
been this way for *years*.  Other people are likewise partial:
Some are interested in seeing certain bugs fixed so they can
continue with their PhD research.  Others would like to get
it into the mainline kernel.  Some would like to see the mailing
list administrative problems fixed.

Frank, myself, Bernd, and Ian occasionally get together in a
smoke-filled room (read: private email) and scheme to figure
out how to best advance the project.  We are advancing the
project by moving the mailing list to a place with significantly
less administrative overhead, so that we can spend more time
coding.

The worst case scenario for using google groups for list
management is that the list would be shut down, and we'd have
to (*gasp*) find a new home.  If it happened suddenly, we might
not be able to send a last "mailing list is moving" message,
and people would have to figure it out by going to the web
site.  Doesn't look so bad.

For everything else that I've seen mentioned, we have these
things called "backups".  It would be a strange and paranoid
world indeed if backups did not exist.



dave...

Received on 2007-10-29Z19:35:20