Re: Proposal for emacs-emba mailing list

[Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>]

Hello,

Toon Claes writes:

> Recently more people have shown their interest in using CI and build
> automation for GNU Emacs. Currently we have a thread going on about it
> with the people in Cc. But those mails are sent off-list.
>
> I'd like to have a mailing list to have a track record of these
> emails. We could do this on emacs-devel itself, but I'm not sure that's
> the right place (who am I to judge?). Another option could be to discuss
> on emacs-buildstatus, but that feels like an even worse idea.

+1 for discussing on them on-list; I want in as well. :-)

> Some time ago, when emba.gnu.org was initially set up, we decided to
> postpone creating a mailing list for it, because there were only 2
> people involved. I think we've come to the point were a mailing list
> would be beneficial.
>
> We could use emacs-emba, although it might be too focused to
> emba.gnu.org only, while the scope might be broader. Maybe a name like
> emacs-build-automation or so would be better. But I'm open to
> suggestions.

If we are to not use emacs-devel for those discussions but rather a
dedicated list, I'd second using a broader name than emacs-emba:
I've been floating around the idea of setting up a GNU-wide installation
of Sourcehut (at least parts of it, but especially its 'builds' module)
and inviting Emacs maintainers and interested maintainers of other GNU
packages to experiment with it and integrate it into their projects.
So, emba.gnu.org may not necessarily be present indefinitely into the
future, and I think a more generic name like emacs-build-discuss would
be better suited for such a list.