Redundant packaging mailing lists

[Heiko Becker]

Hey,

On Tuesday, 28 July 2020 18:17:53 CEST, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 28, 2020 15:58 CEST, Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> I just discovered that we have two mailing lists about distro packaging:
>> distributions at kde.org and kde-distro-packagers at kde.org. The archives for
>> both show recent activity. Feels like we should collapse one into the
>> other to avoid this confusing redundancy.
>
> AFAIK distributions at kde.org is a public list and 
> kde-distro-packagers at kde.org is a closed list for people with 
> access to milonia. I don't think anyone ever posted passwords or 
> anything to k-d-p, so unless the announcement of early tarballs 
> is considered sensitive, there's not really much of a need for a 
> closed list.

IIRC that was only true for kde-packagers, the predecessor of 
kde-distro-packagers, which was split into kde-security-announce and 
kde-distro-packagers for that reason. If memory serves, distributions was 
created roughly at the same time, as a place for distros to discuss common 
packaging problems, or something like that.
Anyway, I don't think the distinction is clear enough to everybody and it 
makes sense to merge distro-packagers and distributions.

Cheers,
Heiko