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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Tom Tobin writes:

 > Out of the various development lists I'm subscribed to, the Bazaar
 > list feels closest to a firehose; so much gets posted to it

emacs-devel is even more so. :-)

 > (e.g., design discussion, Bundle Buggy messages, support questions)
 > that I frequently find myself unable to keep up.  I try to check my
 > email only twice a day (morning and evening), and almost always end
 > up declaring "email bankruptcy" on the Bazaar list -- i.e., setting
 > everything to "mark as read".

As long authors are changing subjects when appropriate, and your MUA
threads and makes navigation to interesting threads easy, I don't
think this is bad.

My issues are (1) the Bundle Buggy messages (but with my MUA that's my
laziness, I could easily filter them out) and (2) the amount of top-
and bottom-posting and lack of trimming that some core developers do.
I'm not religious about that, I hasten to add, but I find that
top-posting (etc) is most acceptable and efficient in "private"
channels where all the users are part of a closely knit group.
Well-trimmed posts are much more important to me as an outsider
looking in.