Re: [Monotone-devel] Quick poll: monotone-users list?

[Thomas Keller]

Am 14.07.2010 14:44, schrieb Ethan Blanton:
> Thomas Keller spake unto us the following wisdom:

Actually, this is a bit too much - no wisdom here :)

>> I don't like to remove the ticket notifications from the devel list,
>> because this basically hinders the awareness of new tickets - which we
>> suffered from over the last couple of years.
> 
> A -tickets or -bugs list has solved this handily for a number of
> projects to which I belong.

This might work for bigger communities, but I think not for ours. Only a
few people would subscribe to -tickets and this would lead to the same
problem: If something was reported on savannah and I (or somebody else)
"accidentially" noticed it, I had to bug one of the other devs manually
to create awareness of the problem and eventually fix it.

> All of that said, as discussed on IRC, a procmail recipe also solves
> my annoyance.  I do think that unsubscribing is less effort than a
> procmail recipe, and you're likely to get people taking that route
> rather than digging through savanna chuff,

Is there #savannah-haters anywhere? I somehow have the impression this
channel would have many users...

> but that feeling isn't a
> useful argument, and it probably doesn't matter even if it is -- those
> people just aren't that interested.

The recent discussion about the changelog editing capabilities made me
thought that a separate -users list could be useful in another area as
well: to let interested parties know that new features arrived in
mainline. Purely informational, of course, but with a few examples and
maybe links to the daily builds which incorporate these changes.

Maybe fewer people which are mainly "users" from our perspective have
then the need to follow -devel at all...?

Heavily depends on the number of users on -users of course - right now
the amount of marketing I try to do for monotone already hits my upper
bounds, and with no users reading / discussing these things it makes
obviously no sense.

Thomas.

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