Taming the mailing lists?

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Wed Apr 28 22:23:49 UTC 2004


Charles Curley said:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 05:43:04PM -0400, William Hooper wrote:
>>
>> Charles Curley said:
>>
>> > One thing that would help: please put a short mnemonic of the version
>> > of Fedora and relevant package(s) to which you refer in your subject
>> > line. e.g.:
>> >
>> > FC2T3: Squid x.y.z Crashes
>> > FC1 as updated: OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 Problem
>>
>> For one thing, FC Test questions and FC release questions don't belong
>> on
>> the same list anyway :-)
>
> Well, that isn't clear. The descriptions at
> http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/communicate/ are rather
> terse.
>
> By way of illustration, here's a boundary situation: I've just loaded
> the latest FCT, and I have a question regarding setting up a
> particular application, but the question isn't specific to the test
> release. Do I ask on the test list or the general list?

Test release -> Test list.  Pretty simple.  The only corner case would be
when they are the same version, in which case either.  If you ask on the
general list all suggestions would assume you are using the FC release and
may not apply to the FCT.

-- 
William Hooper





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