On 2008.04.17 12:42:45 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled 0.5K characters: > Gwern Branwen writes: > > > This wouldn't cause any problems, I don't think. -user has a > > significant trend downward to somewhere around 30KB a month from > > 300KB in April 2005, while -devel is still a active mailing list. > > This varies; there have been periods where it was quite the reverse.
Well, the trend looked pretty consistent to me. There are occasional 10kb jumps up (and down), but I see no reason to believe -user will regain its former glory. Certainly it won't if people keep on knelling darcs's doom and writing obituary blog posts about how they're going to move to git since Dr. Roundy has declared Darcs will no longer be maintained (or whatever). > I suspect that if you merged the lists, you'd drive away a lot of the > people reading darcs-users only. The Tracker traffic alone would > drive the signal/noise ratio way down for them. Again, there's a question of will tracker traffic be significant? Over the last week or two I've gotten involved in darcs, I've seen what seems like less than 1 tracker email a day (and some of them were because of me). And this is directly after a major release years in the making! If tracker traffic isn't high right now, when will it be? Anyway, whether people would really be repelled is one reason I ask - to get the lurkers to speak up. So far John says he likes 1 ML, another says he'd prefer the status quo but it doesn't make a big difference to him, and there's you. I think some more feedback is needed. (Ironically, you could argue that few people responding would only reinforce my point - that there is little enough traffic and people that 1 mailing list makes more sense than 2.) -- gwern media continuous Vauxhall II NCCS NSWT NSG stakeout SUBACS SNS
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