Re: Splitting the mailing list up

From: Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 2, 2010, 21:33 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=WRfbAa7Xb8PS63_DfKiZYwEsWSruivwtkVhWR@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim2Zrj+VUirUL+cyfFnHRw6L9TST-p01yx1rtZS@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Heya,
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 15:00, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/git-users says "This is the git mailing
>> list for users, feel free to ask any question about git usage.", so
>> yes. I think we already have that list. Perhaps all we need to do is
>> to add a link to it on the front-page of git-scm.com, next to the link
>> to this? Perhaps something like "You can also ask the Git development
>> community directly at our git@vger.kernel.org mailing list, or the Git
>> user community at git-users@googlegroups.com"?
>>
>> That would imply making it a bit more official, but perhaps it's a
>> good compromise?
>
> Perhaps we can just at 'git@vger.kernel.org' as one of the list users,
> so that all mails sent to git-users@googlegroups.com are forwarded to
> the git list? As long as the git-users group is open to all, that
> should Just Work, no?

If it worked, it would be just like the zsh mailing list setup that was suggested, which is a good thing IMHO.

If gmane is to be trusted (and if I parsed the output of:

   http://gmane.org/output-rate.php?group=gmane.comp.version-control.git

correclty), then the git mailing list has received an average of about 80 messages per day in 2010.

The "about" page for the git-users group seems to indicate that the group has received about 65 messages per _month_ over the last 4 higher-traffic-than-normal months. A drop in the bucket compared to the main mailing list.

But, the "about" page here:

   http://groups.google.com/group/git-users/about

also says:

   "Only members can post"

That would need to be opened up so that non-members from the main git list could reply to posts originating from the "users" group.

-Brandon