From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Buehlmann Subject: Re: Splitting the mailing list up Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:20:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4CA33D07.3000207@cadifra.com> References: <20100925230022.6e2fd389.coolzone@it.dk> <4CA1899F.2020509@cadifra.com> <141CAFB5-D423-48FE-BEED-B755C5F2685B@sb.org> <4CA2FA76.6080501@cadifra.com> <4CA30201.5020006@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michael J Gruber , Kevin Ballard , Rico Secada , git@vger.kernel.org To: kusmabite@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 29 15:20:20 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 1P0wa4-0004XO-Ea for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:20:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756121Ab0I2NUO (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:20:14 -0400 Received: from relay02.pair.com ([209.68.5.16]:3963 "HELO relay02.pair.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755484Ab0I2NUN (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:20:13 -0400 Received: (qmail 72892 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2010 13:20:11 -0000 Received: from 84.72.158.23 (HELO ?192.168.10.3?) (84.72.158.23) by relay02.pair.com with SMTP; 29 Sep 2010 13:20:11 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 84.72.158.23 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100825 Thunderbird/3.1.3 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 29.09.2010 15:00, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Michael J Gruber > wrote: >> 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. >> Oh. I didn't know that group existed. Interesting. Thanks for the pointer. > http://groups.google.com/group/git-users says "This is the git mailing > list for users, feel free to ask any question about git usage.", so > yes. I think we already have that list. Perhaps all we need to do is > to add a link to it on the front-page of git-scm.com, next to the link > to this? Perhaps something like "You can also ask the Git development > community directly at our git@vger.kernel.org mailing list, or the Git > user community at git-users@googlegroups.com"? > > That would imply making it a bit more official, but perhaps it's a > good compromise? At least it could be mentioned on https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitCommunity ? Anyway, I've now filtered the PATCH emails as suggested and I'll keep subscribed here :) Thanks for the hints and pointers, everyone.