[sugar] Proposal: Activity developers mailing list

[Bernie Innocenti]

Greg Smith wrote:
> I want to read all the e-mails that are important for XO users and I 
> want to skip anything not directly relevant to them. I'll archive and 
> maintain links to the rest in case I need to look something up.
>
> Knowing my perspective, let me know if you have any suggestions on how I 
> can optimize my efficiency with the new communication channels.

I think the Sugar development list, once moved to sugarlabs.org,
will still focus on the same topics.

If, and when, the traffic about non-OLPC ports grows to a point where
it becomes distracting to core development, we might create additional
lists.

Cross-posting to multiple Sugarlabs and OLPC lists will be welcome
as always.

As for the technical aspect of reading multiple lists, can I suggest
using gmame.org?  Their list archives are very usable and they even
relay them over NNTP, which is generally faster than IMAP for a large
number of posts.

The way I do it, is a little geeky, but I found it optimal: I use
procmail recipes based on the Sender header to sort each list into
its own server-side Maildir folder.  Then, I use IMAP to access it
from all my laptops.

This lets me comfortably subscribe to ~30 lists for a total of 5GB
of mail :-)


> "We can rebuild him, we have the technology ... better than he was 
> before, better, stronger, faster!"
> 
> http://www.technorati.com/videos/youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DaZ9phMCn_Lw

It's too bad I have a 3kb/s downlink here in Kathmandu, but I know
*exactly* where this quote comes from ;-)))

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