On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:23:03PM +0000, Nick wrote: > Quoth Charlie Kester: > > If there are enough people who want to keep this dev list restricted to > > discussion of proposed patches or other concrete work on suckless > > projects, perhaps there should be a separate list for more general > > discussion? > > No, I think most people here like the mixture of more general / > philosophical and code stuff. I don't follow the hackers list, but I > really like the patches and comments I see being here, in the same > place as other discussion. There are threads I'm not that interested > in, but I just skip them.
The hackers list is not interesting for reviewing patches per se because at that point they have already been applied. It is mostly for providing clarification to other suckless contributors. The general argument is that dev@ is a relatively low volume list and having a separate list does not seem to be fruitful. I'd personally prefer to have a low volume list full of patches that are yet to be merged than a list intermixed with random _non-technical_ discussion about compilers, distros, tmux vs dvtm and other such mostly boring stuff.
