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Re: your mail

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 22, 2017, 23:21 UTC
Message-ID
<20170622232156.vptuoafdtglokujw@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:58:08PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
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> Which, in the context of what this follows (how to submit a bug,
> questions etc.) isn't a good use of time for the person reading the
> instructions.
> 
> Maybe something more like:
> 
> diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
> index f17af66a97..dc175757fa 100644
> --- a/README.md
> +++ b/README.md
> @@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are
>  available at <https://public-inbox.org/git/>,
>  <http://marc.info/?l=git> and other archival sites.
> 
> +You don't need to be subscribed to the list to send mail to it, and
> +others on-list will generally CC you when replying (although some
> +forget this). It's adviced to subscribe to the list if you want to be
> +sure you're not missing follow-up discussion, or if your interest in
> +the project is wider than a one-off bug report, question or patch.
> +
>  The maintainer frequently sends the "What's cooking" reports that
>  list the current status of various development topics to the mailing
>  list.  The discussion following them give a good reference for

You perhaps already read it, but you may want to steal wording or suggestions from the mailing list section at:

  https://git-scm.com/community

which is covering the same ideas (and vice versa, patches to that page are welcome if the README says something better).

-Peff
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