Future of this list

[David Miller]

This coming month, the long-standing dream of moving the 
netscape.public.mozilla.* newsgroup hierarchy to mozilla.* and getting 
it onto a server Mozilla has control over is finally coming true.

This mailing list was born because the only newsgroup that covered 
Bugzilla was netscape.public.mozilla.webtools, and it was drowning in 
end-user support traffic.  We created it here because there was no way 
to add new newsgroups on the old server (we didn't have any control over 
it).

With the coming newsgroups reorganization this next month, the existing 
netscape.public.mozilla.webtools newsgroup is getting split into FOUR 
(4) different newsgroups in the mozilla.* hierarchy.  One of which is 
intended to be a direct analog of this mailing list (developer discussion).

The new newsgroups will be:

  mozilla.dev.apps.bugzilla <- Bugzilla developer discussion
  mozilla.dev.apps.webtools <- Other webtools developer discussion
  mozilla.support.bugzilla  <- Bugzilla end-user support
  mozilla.support.webtools  <- Other webtools end-user support

These will all be gatewayed to mailing lists with periods changed to 
hyphens and @lists.mozilla.org tacked on the end.

So we now have a decision to make.

I *could* make an attempt to gateway *this* mailing list to the new 
newsgroup if we wanted.  I don't know offhand how to do it.  Majordomo2 
doesn't include this functionality by default, but there are people that 
have done it, so I know it can be done.

Or we could move wholesale to the new list.

Or we could keep them separate, continue to have both and have 
disjointed discussions. :)

Or any of a few other possibilities (we could veto the creation of the 
new dev group, too, though I'm not sure we would want to do that).

What's everyone's thoughts on this?

-- 
Dave Miller                                   http://www.justdave.net/
System Administrator, Mozilla Corporation      http://www.mozilla.com/
Project Leader, Bugzilla Bug Tracking System  http://www.bugzilla.org/