On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Dimitris Papastamos <s...@2f30.org> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:23:03PM +0000, Nick wrote: >> Quoth Charlie Kester: > > 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. >
I agree with this. It's no problem if the list might be low-traffic if it reduces noise and improves the quality of development and the life of the developers.