From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: Separate Mailing Lists for Patches vs General Dev Discussion? Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:25:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20160726182516.232429cc@scratchpost.org> References: <5796782D.1010104@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39960) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bS5AY-0006fE-24 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:25:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bS5AU-0003ge-Q3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:25:21 -0400 Received: from dd1012.kasserver.com ([85.13.128.8]:48140) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bS5AU-0003gT-Ib for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:25:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5796782D.1010104@gmx.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Florian Paul Schmidt Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 22:35:57 +0200 Florian Paul Schmidt wrote: > I'm following the Guix-Project, even if not contributing much because of > time constraints. The one, very simple to implement, thing that would > make following the project more easy IMHO would be a separate list for > patches. Or maybe the other way around: A separate list for more general > discussion :) > > What do you think? I think it would be easier if you created a filter rule in your mail user agent that filters out E-Mails that have subjects that start with "[PATCH". No need to seperate mailinglists at the server for that. Also, maybe you will want to look at a patch later, and then you have to subscribe to the other list. There are enough barriers to contribution already. Patches are posted here in order to invite discussion, it's not a commit autobot that posts them or anything. Also, at least I post patches as response to non-patch discussions as well - that's important for context. I even post bug reports as response to other posts - also for context. This context would be lost in your scenario. I don't see why one would subscribe to the devel mailing list if one didn't want to see patches. I mean what would the development consist of? Writing poems? :) There's a user help list, help-guix. I'm not subscribed to it. Just now I checked help-guix archives and there was a discussion about Guix on ARM I would have been interested in but completely missed. Creating another list would make it worse in my opinion.