I would be on both lists Sometimes I enjoy the chatter and sometimes I press delete
On Wednesday, April 8, 2015, Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 8. April 2015, 08:09:14 schrieb Robert Storey: > > > Good point. But I thought the reason for the suggestion was because > > > of > > > the amount of fairly useless chatter on this list that the devs have > > > to > > > > wade > > > > > through. (Honestly, it annoys me too.) If there is a -dev list, I > > > would > > sign up > > > > > to see what's happening but it's unlikely I would participate because > > > I'm not really qualified to do so. > > > > All good points. Just want to add though that probably one of the causes > > of all the idle chatter is that we in the audience don't yet have > > Devuan in our hot little hands, so we have no technical questions, no > > bug reports, etc. All we can do for entertainment chat about what > > Richard Stallman thinks of systemd, suggest that Pottering is evil, and > > enquire about when Devuan-alpha will be released. I try to avoid those > > silly discussions, but have occasionally broken down and participated. > > > > Once we have the alpha in our hot little hands, we can begin to discuss > > the real technology, and stop wasting developers' time with trivia. And > > I may finally start my long-awaited project to help writing the > > documentation. > > Seriously? > > Then I´d suggest creating a "I am bored and want to talk about trivia" > kind of mailinglist. Or a course in meditation to be able to deal with > some silence in between. > > I still hardly read the list due for the reasons I already explained which > are similar reasons why I unsubscribed debian-user: The noise to useful > content ratio is so high that I feel it to be like a waste of time to try > to find the interesting messages in between in most threads. > > So for now, I just check, is it Jude posting vdev news, read that, and, > honestly mostly forget about the rest. I can deal with it like that, my > mail program can as well, but this way I may miss some of the mails that > have useful content. > > Heck, I don´t even expect every mail to be useful for me. But a bit better > ratio, that would be good. So please, if you just post here out of > boredom: > > Stop! > > And use your boredom as a chance for personal development. > > Thanks, > -- > Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de > GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org <javascript:;> > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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