Reformation of mailing lists?
David W. Hankins
David_Hankins at isc.org
Thu Sep 29 23:18:51 UTC 2005
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Presently we maintain;
dhcp-announce at isc.org - ISC release/security announcements.
dhcp-client at isc.org - DHCP Client-only discussion.
dhcp-server at isc.org - DHCP Server-only discussion.
dhcp-hackers at isc.org - General discussion of DHCP development.
It has been suggested, now that ISC DHCP is under the Software Guild,
that we might homogenize our mailing lists similarly to the bind-
lists.
I'm not opposed to this idea, largely because the dhcp-client mailing
list, although I applaud the attempt at reducing extra chatter, is
largely unused. This past month for example, it's only received 4
messages. The record for the year for one month is 12. That's a
grand total of 51 messages this year so far.
In years past, the only months when the list has seen anywhere close to
volume of one message a day has been those months when threads had been
cross-posted.
So it seems the client list may as well not exist.
So, I am for the combination of the dhcp-server and dhcp-client mailing
lists into something that will then be called "dhcp-users".
dhcp-hackers will remain unchanged as an independent list. Its
originator, I am given to understand, intended this to be a place to
discuss dhcp-related hackery, not ISC DHCP development specifically.
I see no reason why we can't continue to host such a thing so long as
it continues to be a minor systems burden. The cool kids in school
don't write DHCP protocol implementations, so I see no threat there.
dhcp-workers then will be brought into formation instead.
But this is a request for comments. Before we take any action one way
or the other, we'd like to hear your opinions for and against.
--
David W. Hankins "If you don't do it right the first time,
Software Engineer you'll just have to do it again."
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. -- Jack T. Hankins
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