do you know enough about what (other) Bazaar developers are doing?

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:14 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> James Westby wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 15:57 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >> 1. Maybe it's time to split the ML into development and user lists.
> >> High traffic seems to be a common complaint.
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> > I think we should hold off on this for as long as possible. Obviously
> > when that point is up for debate, and it may be that we've reached it.
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> I agree with that principle, but I think we may have reached that point.
> 
> I was sprinting last week, and it took me 'till today to catch up with
> the list.  I've heard of people unsubscribing from the ML due to its
> volume and now we hear from someone declaring "email bankruptcy" and
> marking all messages "read".

On the other hand, dividing the lists *by intent* divides the community.
I don't have a particularly strong feeling here whether a new list will
help or hinder; but I will note that if all the developers do not
subscribe to the new list, then we'll essentially be partitioning users
off and not seeing what they need... and there will be on-ramp for users
to see what is going on and get dragged into developing unless they
explicitly join the developers list.

I don't think being subscribed to a list means reading every single
email - many folk treat lists like a forum system using things like
nabble, or gmail, so arguments simply on volume of mail don't make much
sense to me - if the users list got to the same volume as we have today
would we fork it into 'users over 40 years old' and 'users under 41
years old' ?

-Rob


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