Mailing list for people involved in Linux distributions

[Paul Brown]

On Thursday, 2 February 2023 11:50:56 CET Harald Sitter wrote:
> We already have a distro list. Nobody uses it xD
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions

Ah! Right. Ignore me, please.

Thanks!

> 
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 12:51 PM Paul Brown <paul.brown at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 1 February 2023 11:29:41 CET Anna (cybertailor) Vyalkova 
wrote:
> > > Distro people!
> > > 
> > > We're starting a mailing list for coordinating on cross-distro problems,
> > > "fire of the week", anything which needs - or would benefit from -
> > > distributions speaking to each other.
> > > 
> > > Example topics include:
> > > 
> > > * "new $X is totally broken oh god"
> > > * coordination of stuff like time_t migration
> > > * discussing how to handle something new (the github unstable-tarballs
> > > 
> > >   incident would be a good example)
> > > 
> > > Please consider subscribing: distributions at lists.linux.dev (link on
> > > lists.linux.dev / https://subspace.kernel.org/lists.linux.dev.html)
> > > 
> > > Do join too if you're an upstream and interested in these topics,
> > > especially if you're writing core software. We want a diverse set of
> > > opinions and perspectives!
> > > 
> > > Pass it on to other distribution folks / packagers too. Cheers!
> > 
> > This is a great idea, and something that we would want to boost from Promo
> > to the outside world.
> > 
> > It would also probably make for a decent pilot discussion forum on the
> > Discourse instance we are testing:
> > 
> > https://discuss.kde.org/t/would-this-be-a-good-place-for-the-linux-distro-> > mailing-list/142/1
> > 
> > I would help us gauge whether the platform is popular and usable by
> > external actors, i.e., the folks in charge of distros with KDE
> > implementations.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Paul
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