On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 9:34 AM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There have been quite a few NuttX users who have been put of by the > volume and content of emails on this list. December is not quite over > and there have been close to 850 emails so far this month. And the > majority of the community is only interested is discussion technical > issues and do not even care about the project-oriented content. > > So I wonder, would it be good to have a u...@nuttx.apache.org mail list > just for user-facing questions? I see that many other projects have > such an email account. This would allow people to have simple > discussions about the OS without the organizational/political content. > Such an email would be a replacement for the Google email list. > dev@nuttx.apache.org is not. > > Does this sound like good idea? Or should should we continue to force > users to wad through 100s of emails that they do not way to see?
Yes, we didn't anticipate so many emails! It's good that we have a lot of participation but we did get quite a few complaints about volume. Perhaps an arrangement like this would allow people to take control of the situation: * dev@nuttx.apache.org: For development of NuttX itself, including organizational discussions. * u...@nuttx.apache.org: For users of NuttX, who are usually developers themselves, but they're downstream developers who use NuttX in other products. * notificati...@nuttx.apache.org: For all notifications from GitHub, GitBox, Confluence, Jira, etc., etc., etc. (By the way, I expect that once the dust settles, we have consensus on a workflow, and we "find our groove," the volume of organizational emails should drop substantially and most emails on dev will center around technical discussions once again. But it might take a while...) Thoughts? Nathan
