Mailing list for people involved in Linux distributions

[Harald Sitter]

We already have a distro list. Nobody uses it xD
https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions

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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