On 9/10/2010 11:25 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> For reference:
>>
>> * Subversion created its dev list in April 2000.
>> * The user list was created in July 2003. 238 messages were posted that 
>> month.
>>
>> As you can see, we waited a very long time before sending users to
>> their own list. Our dev list was very heavily trafficked by our users.
>> It kept the larger community together until the point where they could
>> safely work on their own.
> 
> I think my post at the time gives light as to why we waited so long
> and why I felt it was time for the user list to be created:
> 
> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2003-07/1363.shtml
> 
> BTW, those 238 messages in July all came in 10 days...  =P  -- justin

Training users to actually move to the users@ list in 10 days in and of itself
is pretty amazing :)

Agreed that this is not appropriate for the typical incubator project, both
my own mod_aspdotnet podling and those such as stdcxx or lokahi would have
done better on just one [public] list.

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