From: Erik Faye-Lund Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:00:50 GMT Subject: Re: Splitting the mailing list up Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4CA30201.5020006@drmicha.warpmail.net> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Adrian Buehlmann venit, vidit, dixit 29.09.2010 10:36: >> On 28.09.2010 22:06, Kevin Ballard wrote: >>> On Sep 27, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Adrian Buehlmann wrote: >>> >>>> I think this would definitely be an improvement for git users. At least >>>> splitting up into dev and user, like Mercurial does it too (which I am >>>> used to). Not sure about announce though. >>>> >>>> When I recently subscribed to this list (after having been a long time >>>> subscriber to the Mercurial lists too), I was interested in seeing >>>> discussions about git usage to help me get started with git. >>>> >>>> I also think searching the archives would be a bit easier if discussions >>>> of new git development details and its usage would be separated. >>> >>> Perhaps it would make more sense to simply create a new list for git >>> newbies to get help, and to not change the nature of this existing list >>> at all. >> >> Of course, I would be fine if this list here would be simply defined as >> the "git development centric list" and a new, more usage-centric list >> could be started (git-users ?). > > You mean something like: > > git-users@googlegroups.com > > I don't participate there, but my impression is that it's really a user > group. > 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?