Re: [DISCUSSION] Growing the Git community

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 14, 2019, 06:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20191114060650.GC10643@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20191114023100.GD22855@google.com>

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 06:31:00PM -0800, Emily Shaffer wrote:

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> Christian's suggestion of a Google Group list was good enough for me.
> For now, the permission settings are as follows:
> 
>  - Group visibility: Anyone. (So it can be easier to discover and
>    advertise.)
>  - View topics: Group members only. (Maybe we want to open this up so
>    it's easier for non-member Git contributors to take a look at what's
>    going on.... but maybe if they're interested they can just join the
>    group :) )

I think it makes sense to stay closed for now. One of the reasons to have a separate group is to make it less daunting to post to. Having a public archive may work against that.

>  - Post: Group members only. (My thinking is that once you're asking for
>    someone's time and effort to help mentor you, you can volunteer the
>    time and effort needed to push the join button and optionally filter
>    your inbox ;) )

It also cuts down on spam (I moderate the git-security google group, and the spam-blocking is far from perfect).

It is annoying if things get cross-posted to git@vger (whoever replies with the cc intact will get an annoying "you can't post here" bounce). But I'd try it this way for a while and see.

>  - Join group: Anyone. (Let's make the barrier to entry low.)

Makes sense. I just joined.

-Peff