[Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Guidelines for posting in our mailing lists

[Niels de Vos]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 09:48:53AM +0000, Jesper Led Lauridsen     TS Infra server wrote:
> > On 04/17/2015 11:56 AM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Since the volume of posts on our mailing lists seems to be steadily
> > > increasing, I wonder if we should evolve guidelines for posting in
> > the
> > > lists along the lines of the Fedora one [1]. It could be useful for
> > > new entrants in the community to understand our mailing list
> > etiquette.
> > >
> > > If we think it is a good idea to evolve this artifact and don't find
> > > anything in the fedora guidelines objectionable, I would be happy to
> > > port it for Gluster :).
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Vijay
> > >
> > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
> > 
> > +1. Specially I agree with Fedora guideline about "Top posting ". It is
> > really inconvenient to go through a long mail thread when people do
> > "Top posting" [2].
> > 
> > Fedora mailing list guidelines has link to following pdf [1]. It
> > actually covers most of the things in a precise way. Just putting it
> > here in case you missed it in the original wiki page.
> > 
> > [1]
> > http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-
> > etiquette.pdf
> > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Lala
> 
> > Sendt: 17. april 2015 08:59
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Good suggestion. 
> 
> Another suggestion. Off topic - sorry. Some of the question are the
> same or similar which also increase the amount of mails. Maybe it just
> me, but I failed to find a way to search the archives
> "http://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/" for answers or
> previous posts on the same topic. A way to search the archives could
> also decrease the amount.

I tend to use gmane.org for searching. The archives are available there
too:

    http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.user

HTH,
Niels
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