[webkit-dev] Some new mailing lists

Maciej Stachowiak mjs at apple.com
Fri Jul 3 14:28:35 PDT 2009


On Jul 3, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Eric Seidel wrote:

> I wondered after auto-complete failed me this week, and I accidentally
> sent Peter's nomination to webkit-dev instead of webkit-reviewers, why
> do we have webkit- at the start of all are lists?  That's just 6 more
> characters I have to type to make sure that I auto-complete correctly.
> :)
>
> Couldn't they just be:
>
> dev at lists.webkit.org
> reviewers at lists.webkit.org
> committers at lists.webkit.org
> help at lists.webkit.org
> jobs at lists.webkit.org

It's traditional for open source projects to prefix their list even if  
they have a distinguished domain. If projects did otherwise, then your  
autocomplete oopses would be on "dev@" instead of on "webkit-".

  - Maciej



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