Re: copyright notice changed

[Jeroen Dekkers]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:56:27PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 February 2004 11:13, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > That much traffic? You mean 1 to 2 e-mails a day? This month I got 34
> > mails (in 25 days). It's far more annoying when people start posting
> > to the wrong list or start cross-posting. I don't really see a
> > problem with bug-grub, but I don't have any problems with another
> > list either.
> 
> Now I see a good reason to have another list. This makes people less 
> confused.
> 
> Suppose that we use bug-grub for many purposes, such as the maintenance 
> of GRUB 0.9x and the development of GRUB 2. Then, when one mention 
> GRUB, it is not clear which version she wants to mean. If you want to 
> distinguish this but still use a single mailing list, it would be 
> inevitable to always add a marker to a subject manually (like "[GRUB2] 
> New Feature Request"). It's quite unconvenient, I think.
> 
> So let's make a new list. What name do you like? grub-devel?

That would fit the general naming convention within gnu.org. We could
also allow posting by subscribes only. That would get rid of all spam
and virus mails. People who want to ask for help or report bugs
shouldn't use grub-devel so that won't be a problem.

> > I think that changing it to grub_ is better and it won't take that
> > much time to change.
> 
> I think of another problem. You would lose history data if we change 
> pupa to grub completely, because CVS cannot rename files or 
> directories. For example, we need to change the directory 
> "include/pupa" to "include/grub".

I'm not sure but IIRC you can change names without losing history if
you've access to the repository itself. It's not possible with normal
cvs commands, but if you ask the savannah people they can probably do
it.

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Jeroen Dekkers