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Re: A note from the maintainer

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Oct 30, 2017, 12:50 UTC
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Hi Junio,
On Mon, 30 Oct 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> The development is primarily done on the Git mailing list. Help
> requests, feature proposals, bug reports and patches should be sent to
> the list address <git@vger.kernel.org>.  You don't have to be
> subscribed to send messages.  The convention on the list is to keep
> everybody involved on Cc:, so it is unnecessary to say "Please Cc: me,
> I am not subscribed".

I have heard about a dozen complaints that mails were simply eaten by the mailing list. At least some of those cases were due to HTML (or HTML/plain) mails being quietly dropped, and it caused more than just minor frustration.

Maybe mention this in your maintainer's note, to help stave off such problems?

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2017
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