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

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Am Mittwoch, den 06.08.2008, 06:28 +1000 schrieb Robert Collins:
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:14 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > 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.
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > 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' ?
We have separate lists for users and developers for Samba as well and I
find that it allows me to treat email on both lists differently.

 For example, I will reply to the latest emails on the user list when I
have time but if I get behind I'll simply ignore the emails from the
user list and mark them all as read. This makes sense since in general
questions on the user lists get answered within a couple of days;
reading through threads that have already been finished.

For the development list, I generally make sure I at least skim through
all messages and read the subjects to see if there's anything
interesting in there I have to deal with. 

In the past, I have been ignoring all traffic on the bzr list at times,
even the development-related stuff, since it was too much too keep up
with.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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