Does it really make sense to use the same list for development discussions amongst the ComDev community, and discussions with the general public?
At present this single list is acting as both developer and user list. [Many projects would also have commits, issues and notifications lists] It may not be an issue for the ComDev community to disentangle the emails, but it must be confusing for the general public trying to find answers to their questions on how the ASF works. It also means that the mail archives are less useful for people trying to see how the ASF community works rather than how ComDev itself functions. It has always seemed strange to me that discussions on ComDev tools are mixed in with questions from someone on how to get started with the ASF. Sebb. On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 at 22:01, Brian Thompson <br...@hashvault.io> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 01:16:19PM -0400, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > >First, I feel like I have to respond given the Truman State University sig. > >It's rare I run into other Truman grads in the wild, though we wouldn't > >have crossed paths on campus... (1998 grad here...) > > Wow, this is a first for me, too. Glad to see some fellow Truman grads > in technology. > > >If the PRs appear here on this list, it makes it slightly easier to have a > >discussion on list about the PRs. It also doesn't require people to go > >upstream to subscribe to github or a second list. > > > >I wouldn't go so far as to say it's "unreasonable" to have a second list, I > >just am not convinced it's desirable. > > > >As to the suggestion to discussing the PRs on the other list - then we have > >to ask people to subscribe to both or miss some of the conversations about > >the site development. Creating a filter for the GitBox notices + > >subscribing to a new list are both about the same amount of work. If you > >filter by sender or something like that you still can see discussions here > >if anybody decides to go deeper on a specific commit. If you have to track > >both lists, then that means a subset of the community is not going to see > >those discussions either. (Either by omission or they just filter > >everything and then see something six months later... ask me how I know...) > > That is true. I guess I am just used to having more mailing lists > (I am mostly active on the Debian mailing lists) to choose from so that > the mailing lists themselves act as filters. > > It's not a big deal to me either way; having a new mailing list or > keeping it consolidated. Whatever the community decides I will go along > with. It's not a battle I will choose to fight. > > -- > Best regards, > > Brian T > B.S. Computer Science 2014 (Truman State University) > Minor Stasitics > Minor Chemistry > Minor Mathematics --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
