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Re: Suggestion for mailing lists... split [PATCH]-es into own list

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 12, 2007, 04:50 UTC
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On 10/12/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> I, for one, am totally opposed to this split.  All too often valuable
> _user_ discussions turn into _technical_ discussions, and thence into a
> throwing back and forth patches.

<aol>mee too! - I think it's the kind of development culture that Linus tries to foster, and I suspect Junio likes too: "talk in patches" which is a lot more productive than "talk like a pirate", bikeshedding and other maladies that can fester in mailing lists.

So no split for me ;-) We have the additional alibi that git users are supposed to be programmers.

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Message 7 of 13 in “Suggestion for mailing lists... split [PATCH]-es into own list”
  1. Thomas Harning Jr.Oct 11, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinOct 11, 2007
  3. Is it possible for git to support binary differencing for binary files?银平, Oct 11, 2007
  4. Jean-Luc HerrenOct 11, 2007
  5. frankyOct 12, 2007
  6. Alex RiesenOct 11, 2007
  7. Martin LanghoffOct 12, 2007
  8. Simon SasburgOct 12, 2007
  9. Lars HjemliOct 12, 2007
  10. Simon SasburgOct 12, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinOct 12, 2007
  12. Steven GrimmOct 11, 2007
  13. BazOct 11, 2007

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