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Am 13.07.2007 um 00:43 schrieb Chrissy Fullam: |
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> The -dev mailing list would be the list for development discussion. |
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> The |
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> reason it does not replace -core is because it would still be open |
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> to be |
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> viewed by the public. |
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> Many devs have stated that they do not wish to read -dev presently |
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> due to |
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> the quantity of off topic emails, or at least those that are not |
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> productive. |
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> These devs would be able to continue to read -dev and reduce the |
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> volume of |
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> email to wade through to only those pertinent to the topic at hand. |
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> Non-devs would still subscribe and post, but those posts must first be |
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> approved by ANY developer. |
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... |
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> The -project mailing list would be the place for the unmoderated and |
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> potentially off topic correspondence. I don't think anyone is |
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> married to the |
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> name. It also is a required list for a dev to join. |
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Isn't that two solutions for one problem? |
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Creating the -project list is a way to discuss off-topic non-technical |
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stuff on a place other than -dev. Why would we need to enforce |
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moderation |
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on the -dev list along with that? |
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I have to second the voices that a lot of user mails are productive. |
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I did |
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not do any stats, but I feel that most mails to -dev are currently by |
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Gentoo |
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devs anyway, so it will not seriously reduce the amount of mail in |
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total. |
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As far as the usually fast technical discussions are concerned, my |
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problem |
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here is that users are in practical kept out of the discussion by the |
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mere |
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delay of their mails. We might experience double replies, users writing |
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replies which get dumped -- because someone else already wrote the |
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same mail 30 minutes ago and it did not get approved until he wrote |
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his mail. |
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If you ever spent 30 minutes figuring out a problem in Mac OS X and |
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filing |
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a decent bug report on their bug tracker just to find out it gets DUPed, |
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but you could not know before because the search is not public, you know |
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what I am talking about. |
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My imagination of this would be: |
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Create the project list for open discussion and restrict the |
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*topic* range, not the *participant* range of this list. |
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We can evaluate whether the SNR did improve enough after some time. |
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Regards, |
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Robert |
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