On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:59 AM, Jorge Timón < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Apparently that existed already: http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/ > But technical people run away from noise while non-technical people > chase them wherever their voices sounds more loud. > FWIW, and I mentioned this opinion in #bitcoin-dev on IRC, but I am perfectly fine with receiving everything through a single mailing list. I used to read the Wikipedia firehose of recent edits because I thought that's how you were supposed to use the site. Edits per second eventually reached beyond any reasonable estimate of human capacity and then I realized what was going on. Any sort of "glorious future" for bitcoin with hundreds of millions of users will also see this problem for future developers, even if only 0.1% of that population are money-interested programmers then that's 100,000 programmers to work with. I would never want to turn off this raw feed. Having said that, I am somewhat surprise that nobody has taken to weekly summaries of research and development activity. Summarizing recent work is a valuable task that others can engage in just by reading the mailing list and aggregating multiple thoughts together, similar to release notes. I was also expecting to see something like "individual developer's summaries of things they have found interesting over the past 30-90 days or past year" digging up arcane details from the mailing list archives, or more infrequent summaries of the other smaller batched review emails. Digest mode mailing list consumption is often recommended to those who are uninterested in dealing with low signal-to-noise, but I suspect that summarizing activity would be more valuable for this community, especially for the different cognitive niches that have developed. - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507
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