Re: The 8th airing of the msysGit herald

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 6, 2008, 00:41 UTC
Message-ID: <7vskz4heeg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803060121360.15786@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>
>> would it be possible to have separate mailing lists for usage topics and 
>> for discussions of ongoing development? I imagine that might help those 
>> who just want to use git (like me) to find their way around.
>
> AFAIAC you can have your "users-only" mailing list.  Personally, I will 
> never look at it, though, since all I am interested in is the development 
> of Git.  If that holds true for the majority of Git _developers_, it might 
> even be a bad idea to have a separate users' list, since then
>
> - no ideas from strictly-users would flow to the developers, and
>
> - new developments would not reach you, and
>
> - you would not get help by the people knowing the internals _deeply_.

Personally, I suspect I would end up subscribing to both, but two mailing lists would make it much more cumbersome than necessary to correlate the original user "itch" request that triggered an enhancement, the discussion that clarified the design constraints and requirements, and the patch and the review comments that lead to the final implementation, especially if you do not encourage cross posting to both lists. And of course cross posting will make user-only list more technical which would defeat the original point of having two lists.

"users-only" list could probably created by readers' MUA, by picking emails that do not have "diff --git" in its body; that would probably be a good enough approximation for people who are not interested in the technical discussions.