Re: Mailing lists, was Re: [RFC] Git User's Survey 2008

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Marek Zawirski wrote:
>> 
>> > Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> > > I am not sure how and where, but I think j/egit should also be 
>> > > mentioned and/or asked about.
>> >
>> > There is no separate mailing list for j/egit, we just used private mails 
>> > for some discussions/less important notifications.
>> 
>> I hope not for too much, because this is one of the lessons of last year's 
>> GSoC (and to a large degree this year's Gitorrent project): if you keep 
>> the project too secret, nobody will know, and as a consequence nobody will 
>> care.
>
> We've done most patch review discussions right here on git@vger,
> but yea, some stuff happens in private.  I think what happens in
> private this year on egit is really just the standard mentor-student
> working relationship prior to posting patches for discussion.

Sorry for causing confusion in the discussion, but I was not talking about
"mailing list on e/jgit".

What I meant was that we might want to have a few more questions about
e/jgit as an independent entity in the survey, as it is a completely
different re-implementation of the same git theme.