From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: Splitting the mailing list up Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:08:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4CA30201.5020006@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <20100925230022.6e2fd389.coolzone@it.dk> <4CA1899F.2020509@cadifra.com> <141CAFB5-D423-48FE-BEED-B755C5F2685B@sb.org> <4CA2FA76.6080501@cadifra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Kevin Ballard , Rico Secada , git@vger.kernel.org To: Adrian Buehlmann X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 29 11:08:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0se7-0003LM-25 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:08:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754563Ab0I2JIJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:08:09 -0400 Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:41476 "EHLO out5.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751600Ab0I2JIH (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:08:07 -0400 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DDE53DD; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:08:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:08:07 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=XL3MM1qIRsp4xh2SSkOdEgHm2I4=; b=DJlbzZdJawER3hQhkq2RL+7QCWH0C/DN9//doWNw+pGU/ULozuE1xfAq6I/NLXACwqE+v2aT92MIrn2wlGgGTs2Ru71hVqLHiHY9n14BEkwcmIQxQQ5eBntAl622hkCRge/xgSrw3ptJmHg02ju54O3N0bz9Gw81TsccG2azfDY= X-Sasl-enc: GK8LNUNsfohJkTACQeGFYVCChoDFzGcWxF9O0h9kiloA 1285751286 Received: from localhost.localdomain (heawood.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.4]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 60681406722; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:08:06 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100921 Fedora/3.1.4-1.fc13 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: <4CA2FA76.6080501@cadifra.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Adrian Buehlmann venit, vidit, dixit 29.09.2010 10:36: > On 28.09.2010 22:06, Kevin Ballard wrote: >> On Sep 27, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Adrian Buehlmann wrote: >> >>> I think this would definitely be an improvement for git users. At least >>> splitting up into dev and user, like Mercurial does it too (which I am >>> used to). Not sure about announce though. >>> >>> When I recently subscribed to this list (after having been a long time >>> subscriber to the Mercurial lists too), I was interested in seeing >>> discussions about git usage to help me get started with git. >>> >>> I also think searching the archives would be a bit easier if discussions >>> of new git development details and its usage would be separated. >> >> Perhaps it would make more sense to simply create a new list for git >> newbies to get help, and to not change the nature of this existing list >> at all. > > Of course, I would be fine if this list here would be simply defined as > the "git development centric list" and a new, more usage-centric list > could be started (git-users ?). You mean something like: git-users@googlegroups.com I don't participate there, but my impression is that it's really a user group. FWIW: When I was new, the volume over here was too much for me also, and simply filtering out all PATCH messages was a perfect solution. I've removed that filter meanwhile, though... Michael