Hello everyone,

Some months ago, I noticed there has never been much activity on
devuan-discuss ML:
- all the active and knowledgeable people of DNG ML are not posting on
devuan-discuss ML
- several questions asked on devuan-discuss remains without answer

But lastly it got worse:
- a quite important problem [1] reported on devuan-discuss seems to have
been completely unnoticed by poeple on DNG ML
- this problem has not been answered (or told it is being addressed) on
devuan-discuss ML
- poeple on devuan-discuss ML (probably newcomers which subscribed based
on the MLs description found on [2]), have the feeling Devuan project is
not active, given the low activity on devuan-discuss [3]
- poeple on devuan-discuss are not on DNG ML, and vice versa, which
splits the community into 2 groups.

Based on the MLs description on [2], devuan-discuss is the primary ML
for requesting help and discuss about Devuan. That is wrong! The fact is
that DNG is the primary ML for such things.

devuan-discuss is not useful and causing troubles: newcomers don't get
help; community is splits into 2 groups; ML activity gives a bad
perception about Devuan project activity.

Based on these observations, I think the information on [2] should be
updated to tell DNG is the primary ML. devuan-discuss would better be
closed and all the subscribers informed that DNG is the primary ML for
getting help and discuss about Devuan, because it has always been and
people never switched to devuan-discuss.

Regards,
Giovanni

[1] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/thread/20161106.095648.d2208b15.en.html
[2] https://devuan.org/os/community
[3] since 2 may 2016: about 50 mails sent to devuan-discuss, about 3800
to DNG

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Giovanni Rapagnani