[CentOS] new list proposal

Fri Oct 17 01:12:34 UTC 2008
Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Christopher Chan wrote:
>>> - technologies
>>> - best practices
>>> - deployment strategies and tools
>>> - management strategies and tools
>>
>> I don't know whether that will take off...has not it been tried 
>> outside centos.org by centos list members already?
> 
> Not that I am aware of. But its worth a try here in .centos.org ( or so 
> I feel anyway ). What we do or dont do will ultimately be based on what 
> everyone feels about it.

Sometime when Bryan Smith was still about...setup by a Brazilian IIRC. 
But whatever. Like John Hinton says: Cut us loose.

> 
>>> And to better cater to these conversations, as well as further 
>>> encourage such content, we'd like to propose creating a 'centos-tech' 
>>> list.
>> They sound like 'general' stuff that lot.
> 
> yes, a lot more generic than something that is distro specific.

Okay, I think quite a few here would want a 'anything goes' list then.

> 
>> How about a centos-help list instead?
> 
> I am not sure if that would work, its been tried many times and always 
> fails back to the fact that everyone who posts to a list, has an issue 
> they need help with.

Okay, let's have an 'anything goes' list whatever it is called.