Re: Too many mailing lists

2014-06-25 Thread KIMURA Masaru
Hi, > The Cygwin project has too many mailing lists. +1 > I see real value in only 3 lists: > > 1. User discussions > 2. Development of Cygwin-the-project (broader than the DLL) > 3. Talk -1 just unify only 1 ML is simple. the cygwin ML flow looks not so massive.

Re: Too many mailing lists

2014-06-24 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! >> 5. cygwin-patches >> This one's going to be missing as soon as the Cygwin repo is migrated to Git, >> IMO. > Are you imagining Github style managed pull requests here? I expect > Cygwin will be using their own hosting, which means you don't get that > feature. That

Re: Too many mailing lists

2014-06-23 Thread Cliff Hones
I for one am finding this discussion rather boring and would prefer it be moved elsewhere. I can't see any changes happening - only one vote in favour apart from the OP, and that's someone who's views, as a result of his earlier behaviour, are likely to receive less weight than he'd like. I'm

Re: Too many mailing lists

2014-06-23 Thread Warren Young
On 6/21/2014 19:23, Andrey Repin wrote: 5. cygwin-patches This one's going to be missing as soon as the Cygwin repo is migrated to Git, IMO. Are you imagining Github style managed pull requests here? I expect Cygwin will be using their own hosting, which means you don't get that feature. Th

Re: Too many mailing lists

2014-06-23 Thread Warren Young
On 6/21/2014 05:51, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 03:07:37PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: Every time someone says "That's not on topic here, go elsewhere," it can easily be read as "Go away." I've never seen a reply saying "that's not on topic here, go away" I said "go elsewher

Re: Too many mailing lists

2014-06-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/20/2014 03:07 PM, Warren Young wrote: > The Cygwin project has too many mailing lists. This causes an > unjustifiable amount of friction. I tend to disagree; I'm happy with the current division of lists. None of the lists are high-volume except for the main cygwin and X lists

Re: Too many mailing lists(passing the buck)

2014-06-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 09:10:06PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 06/22/2014 05:38 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> But, then, I know of cygwin devs who feed orphans, rescues kittens, and >> work to prevent global warming. So, as long as we're making >> unsubtantiated allegations, it all wo

Re: Too many mailing lists(passing the buck)

2014-06-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 06/22/2014 05:38 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 02:21:49PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 03:07:37PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: Every time someone says "That's not on topic here, go elsewhere," it can easily be read as "Go awa

Re: Too many mailing lists(passing the buck)

2014-06-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 02:21:49PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >Adam Dinwoodie wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 03:07:37PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >> >>> Every time someone says "That's not on topic here, go elsewhere," it >>> can easily be read as "Go away." The Cygwin project should only be

Re: Too many mailing lists(passing the buck)

2014-06-22 Thread Linda Walsh
Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 03:07:37PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: Every time someone says "That's not on topic here, go elsewhere," it can easily be read as "Go away." The Cygwin project should only be pushing away toxic people, and multiple mailing lists do not have that h

Re: Too many mailing lists

2014-06-21 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! > The Cygwin project has too many mailing lists. This causes an > unjustifiable amount of friction. Eh? Wait a second, please. Let me pull my fingers up and count. So far, barring automatic mailing lists like -announce, we have: 1. cygwin (this exact one) A

Re: Too many mailing lists

2014-06-21 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 03:07:37PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > Every time someone says "That's not on topic here, go elsewhere," it > can easily be read as "Go away." The Cygwin project should only be > pushing away toxic people, and multiple mailing lists do not have > that happy side effect. I

Re: Too many mailing lists

2014-06-20 Thread Steven Penny
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Warren Young wrote: > I see real value in only 3 lists: > > 1. User discussions > 2. Development of Cygwin-the-project (broader than the DLL) > 3. Talk Well said, I agree. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:

Too many mailing lists

2014-06-20 Thread Warren Young
The Cygwin project has too many mailing lists. This causes an unjustifiable amount of friction. Every time someone says "That's not on topic here, go elsewhere," it can easily be read as "Go away." The Cygwin project should only be pushing away toxic people, and