[gnutls-devel] should we deprecate the development ML?

[Tim Rühsen]

On 07/02/2018 02:31 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 3:37 PM Tim Rühsen <tim.ruehsen at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Please keep the list.
>>>
>>> I actually wish the gitlab discussions were available, archived and
>>> searchable on a mailing list. Is there a way to forward them?
>>>
>>> cu Andreas
>>
>> I totally agree with Andreas.
>>
>> We did something liek this for Wget2...
>> - create a user wget-gnutls on Gitlab.com with email address
>> gnutls-devel at lists.gnutls.org
>> - turn on all notifications
>> - make the user a project member (reporter)
>>
> 
> How did that work for wget2? Is the mailing list still used for discussions
> outside gitlab? What I'm afraid of is ending up with a mailing list which
> is storage for the gitlab notifications, or even worse (IMHO), disconnected
> replies on list for gitlab discussions which are not reflected on gitlab.
> That way one would have to follow both.

We always had bug-wget at gnu.org for everything (user + dev) incl. Wget2
stuff.
So we made up a new ML wget-dev at gnu.org for developers which includes
the Gitlab notifications. And as you expect, some people sending
questions directly into the new ML.

So what i do is just following the new ML. If someone comes with an
issue directly on the ML, I open an issue at Gitlab. If it is just a
question, it will be answered on the ML directly.
That is no extra work so far for me.

Let the user choose how they contact GnuTLS - some people don't want to
make up a Gitlab account or even don't want to get in contact with the
Gitlab web site. And a ML is much better for this than private mails.

Regards, Tim

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