[SAC] Naming of several mailing lists

[Frank Warmerdam]

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> I agree that a cleanup is needed.
> 
> One more thing I would suggest is to pick a convention for naming lists, 
> document it somewhere, and make sure it is followed when new lists are 
> created (that would include things like listing valid prefix/suffix, 
> when to use them or not, characters to use as separators for 
> prefix/suffix, etc.) This is more or less implied in Frank's proposal, 
> but for instance we still have a mix of "-" and "_" as separator in list 
> names (e.g. gdal-announce vs Fdo_announce). Personally I have a 
> preference for "-" over "_" but as long as we pick one I'll be happy.

Folks,

I'd like to suggest that such policies on mailing list remain advisory
rather than absolute.  In particular we as OSGeo try not to impose to
many specific rules on software projects if avoidable.  As a GDAL project
member I'd be really pissed off to have SAC tell me I was required to
use gdal_announce.

I think we could consider such policies absolute for core OSGeo lists.

Best regards,
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