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Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> On 6/25/06, Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> wrote: |
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>> This topic has come up in the past, and I'd like to revive it once |
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>> again. The gentoo-dev list has gotten a lower and lower signal to noise |
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>> ratio over the past year or two, and it's difficult to dig out the stuff |
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>> that's truly required reading. |
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> What's noise to you is signal to others. For example, my interest is |
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> servers, so all of your X.org posts are mostly noise to me, but to |
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> others it's essential signal. Same goes for the scientific re-org |
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> recently discussed. And I'm sure the same goes for PHP & webapp |
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> stuff. |
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Exactly. More stuff you don't care about is more noise. I agree with |
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that too. Rather than reading 50 posts about X crap, wouldn't you rather |
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just look at a single announcement? |
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>> I propose that all need-to-know announcements and decisions be posted to |
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>> a separate, moderated (or restricted posting) gentoo-dev-announce list |
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>> to ensure that no developers lose track of what really matters. |
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> I think a -dev-announce ML is a good idea, with reply-to set to -dev. |
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> But I also think you're over-exaggerating the situation by a long way, |
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> sorry. |
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I'm glad you have your opinion. I don't have the time to sit and browse |
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through all the arguments between 2-3 people that go on for 50-100 posts |
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or more as they fall more and more off-topic, so I would like to know if |
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there's any conclusion without wasting my time on that. |
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My options are either missing important announcements or creating this |
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list. I would prefer the list. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |