[Board] Naming of several mailing lists
Markus Neteler
neteler.osgeo at gmail.com
Sat Jan 6 11:13:55 PST 2007
Dear all,
looking at
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo
I see a couple of inconsistencies and strange names
for the new lists. Maybe already too late, but maybe
better now than never:
The following lists have an obscure "Mail_" prefix:
Mail_africa [no description available]
Mail_announce OSGeo Announcements
Mail_commits [no description available]
Mail_discuss OSGeo Foundation Discuss List
Mail_francophone [no description available]
Mail_mse-users [no description available]
Mail_webmap-discuss [no description available]
while there are the more reasonable:
Africa Africa local chapter discussions
Brasil_commits [no description available]
Brasil_cvs [no description available]
Brasil_issues [no description available]
- What's the difference between "Mail_africa" and "Africa"?
- "Mail_announce" could simply be "announce"
- "Mail_discuss" could simply be "discuss"
- "Mail_francophone" could simply be "francophone"
and so forth.
The veeery long names are also a bit unfortunate:
Visibilitycommittee_announce [no description available]
Visibilitycommittee_dev Visibility Committee Discussion List
Visibilitycommittee_discuss-de Deutschsprachiges OSGeo Marketing
Webcommittee_announce [no description available]
Webcommittee_commits [no description available]
Webcommittee_dev Discussion and development of OSGeo's web presence
Webcommittee_issues [no description available]
-> Webcom_ and Viscom_? But above "Mail_" prefixes are worse.
Finally: Simplyfy this one:
Www_international-discuss Discussion on how to improve
international networking
to "intl-discuss" as before?
And:
Www_news-item
and
News_commits
should probably be made more similar?
Sorry for bothering,
Markus
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