Re: Splitting the mailing list up

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 26, 2010, 18:54 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTik3ES08H1VSaGxv7aDoV3Ki_Y2ea2dHYqem0S28@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8AE74FC9-6C7F-433E-A162-E56644847198@wincent.com>

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 17:30, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> wrote:

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> El 26/09/2010, a las 18:02, Sebastien Douche escribió:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 23:00, Rico Secada <coolzone@it.dk> wrote:
>>> Would it be a bad idea to split the Git mailing list up in several
>>> sub-categories?
>>>
>>> Example:
>>>
>>> announce@
>>> dev@
>>> user@
>>
>> Why not, but the simple way is to create another ml for patchs.
>> Without patchs, the traffic seems relatively low.
>
> This has come up many times, and been rejected each time. Check the archives for the reasons why.

Right, but for the *main* mailing list. However if Rico, Walter and others would find a limited traffic mailing list valuable there's nothing stopping them from setting one up.

Jay linked to an archive where someone is running RSS feeds of the different parts of the git list, similarly you could set up a git-user list which would be a version of the git list filtered to reduce patch traffic.

Maybe that list wouldn't make much sense when patches are intermingled with regular discussion, but it's worth a try.