Re: ANNOUNCE: Git Forum
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- Robert Haines <rhaines@manchester.ac.uk>
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- Apr 9, 2008, 16:57 UTC
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On 9 Apr 2008, at 01:49, DigitalPig wrote:
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> "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Martin Langhoff >> <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Patrick Aljord >>> <patcito@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> here it is: http://groups.google.com/group/git-users >>> >>> Is it clear to everyone here that splitting a community does not >>> make >>> it stronger? >> >> One interesting point is that the current list might have *too much* >> discussion. I hesitated to join for quite a while in case I couldn't >> keep up with the traffic (and yes, it's hard to keep up with the >> traffic :)) >> >> From that point of view, perhaps "making the community stronger" is >> not the goal at all. Perhaps a valid goal is to fracture the >> community so that more people can participate in a community in the >> first place. >> >> Have fun, >> >> Avery > I agree with that. For me, each day this group shows 200+ topics > when I > opened Gnus. I think this could be divided into two groups, one for > git-user and the other for git-devel.
This is missing the point slightly. If you ask a question on this list now it will be read by a lot of people who know git intimately and will help in very short order. These are the people who come to the list for other things (development discussions, patches, etc). If you split the group these people will not see your questions so they won't get answered. How does that help the community or make it stronger? It might well fracture the community into two groups: One that is now free to get even more development done, and one that never gets any of its questions answered!
That said, this list is very high traffic. If you want to reduce that why not filter out all mails with things like "[PATCH", "[BUG]", etc in the title and you'll just about have your git-users list!
Cheers, Rob