On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:08:38 -0400, "William L. Thomson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 15:26 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:14:00 -0400 > > "William L. Thomson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > What makes a developer only -dev list any different than developers > > > only having a voice on #gentoo-dev? > > > > The former is where development discussion is supposed to take place. > > The latter is a social convenience. > > For some. Most all of my development communication is primarily done via > IRC. Email is rarely used, and from what I have seen else where. This > seems to be the main trend IMHO. Granted for big issues discussed over > time, the ML is a better resource than IRC.
Personally, I prefer quicker mechanisms to slower ones, but some people dislike real-time communications because they can interrupt their work constantly. I think what's important is not the signal-to-noise ratio, per se, but the relevant-to-irrelevant ratio. To me, it makes no difference whether the traffic that I don't care about is spam/trolls or just discussion of another project. So I'd support -dev being for coordination of core development and -project being for other things, so that people can read all of -dev easily and simply pay attention to only what they want to see on -project. But I see no reason to moderate either -- #-dev is moderated because IRC is an easy medium to disrupt. It's a lot harder to wander on to a mailing list and start trolling, and it's easier to block. Just my $0.02, Thomas Tuttle -- Thomas Tuttle - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ttuttle.net/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
