[ogb-discuss] Community Group Guidelines

[Roy T. Fielding]

On Jun 28, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Glynn Foster wrote:
>>>>           -dev:     Developer dsicussion related to the topic
>>>>           -code:    Code discussion related to the topic
>>
>> What's the difference between -dev and -code?
>
> Good catch.
>
> Yeah, some of this is due to historical decisions eg. opensolaris- 
> code and
> zfs-code. More recently people have been using -dev, and the code  
> review site
> for generating diffs. There may not be a real need for -code  
> anymore, and
> probably should have included '-notify' instead.

IMO, the -discuss and -code suffixes were poorly chosen.  Mailing lists
should have a scope built into the name that evokes the topics that
are open to discussion.  For that reason I prefer "-dev" (which stands
for development, including both code and non-code contributions) and
"-use" (which serves as a users self-help forum).

....Roy