Inappropriate use of private meetings & lists. (reply to).

[NoiseEHC]

1. olpc games sets the reply-to
2. BTW this recommendation does not make my point wrong (eg that the 
current setting makes harder to keep conversations on the devel list)

Jim Gettys wrote:
> Here's mailman's recommendation about replyto...
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> http://lists.laptop.org/admin/devel/?VARHELP=general/reply_goes_to_list
>                      - Jim
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> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 09:19 +0200, NoiseEHC wrote:
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>>> There are top-down decisions being made by a few people that drive the 
>>> direction of OLPC. These decisions are not waiting for consensus, and 
>>> they are made by a small number of people. I don't believe this is 
>>> going to change (at least not in the short term).
>>>
>>>       
>> I, personally, do not care who makes decisions, as long as he is smart 
>> and makes "good" decisions. The problem is that usually I am not 
>> notified of such decisions.
>>
>> For example, the move from 32 bit to 16 bit frame buffer just happened 
>> silently. One day people debated its merits on this list without 
>> reaching any conclusions. Some months later it was 16 bit. Nobody told it.
>>
>> A similar thing is that I am trying to get an answer to the question 
>> whether the XO image will be moved to LZO compression or not when we 
>> will be rebased to F9. The reason is that I am currently tuning the LZO 
>> decompression code and want to know whether this effort is moot or not. 
>> Most likely this was already decided by somebody, and frankly I am not 
>> qualified enough to debate this decision, I just want to know what it is.
>>
>> Note that I had to reply all to this message and then delete all 
>> recipients and then replace CC devel with TO devel. The reason is that 
>> this devel list is not set up that the reply-to would be the devel list, 
>> and if I do not delete others then the conversation often slips outside 
>> devel. See, even the main mailing list is configured wrong.
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