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On Jul 3 10:08, Thomas Wolff wrote: > On 01.07.2015 12:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jun 27 17:59, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >>... > >>I think it's sufficient for this project to have one of issue tracker or > >>mailing list/forum, not both. And an issue tracker has the valuable > >>advantage that you can close issues... > >Mailing lists allow discussing stuff before formally requesting > >something via issue tracker. E.g, user problems can be both, a user > >just having a thinko or a bug. ML discussions help to find out and > >avoid spurious issues in the issue tracker. Also, many people happily > >report bugs on mailing lists but don't want to be bothered with > >issue trackers which you have to login to. > Sure. My assumption was that cygwin@cygwin.com would be a good place for > occasional questions of that kind. That's fine, but that only covers the cygwin users, while mintty exists in a non-Cygwin version as well, IIRC. I was just outlining why I think having a mailing list is a good thing. Ultimately it's your (and perhaps Andy's) call. > Also I had somewhat associated the google groups list with the closing > google code area but that's probably not proper. > If you prefer to divert traffic off this list, I'll reconsider. Also, if > people start discussions on the old list, I can still mention it on the > homepage. > > I have a package now to publish but need to find a timeslot to fiddle with > the lftp upload... /me is jumping up and down in anticipation Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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