+++ Charles Plessy [2014-11-10 23:25 +0900]: > Hi all, > > >From now on I will try to see if I can give to Debian the same quality of > contribution without being subscribed to debian-devel. And I invite you to > think about it and *not* to discuss it on this list.
Just a data-point: I joined d-devel when I joined debian. It was noisy and after a while I unsubscribed. And it stayed that way for several years. I did my stuff in my little corner and that worked, but I had almost no idea what was going in in Debian generally and was often surprised by events/changes. At some point I tried joining up again and have since become much more involved, at least partly due to having some feel for what is currently going on. So -devel is noisy and sometimes unhelpful, but at least for me being subscribed is definitely more useful than not being subscribed. Possibly the same effect could be achieved by joining -project. I've never tried that... So if your purpose is just to work on your packages, then yes ignore -devel - you will get a quieter life. But it does disconnect you noticeably. Perhaps that is less true than it was, as there are more alternatives (such as planet). Just some (anecdotal) data. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141111122711.gd28...@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk
