On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 03:49:30PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > 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. > > Your point seems to be that adding -user wouldn't raise the traffic on > -dev much. My concern is more that adding -dev to user could raise the > traffic and "noise" (from my perspective) on that list. > > As I said, if that's the trade off for a better chance of getting an > answer, then I personally think it's worth it. > > David Roundy was very helpful in answering some questions I had a few > months ago, and I do wonder if his announcement that he was focusing on > development means that if I asked those questions now they would go > unanswered. (It also means I'm not sure if I should keep him on the cc > list. Sorry if you didn't want to get this!)
It's true that I'm not reading the mailing lists any more, and that might lead to fewer questions being answered. I don't mind being cced on issues that I need to be aware of (and the question of merging the lists counts, since I'd have to do that myself, I think). I think the real question is whether the -users list is useful to folks. If few enough developers subscribe to it so that questions can't/don't get answered, then it makes sense to eliminate it so as to keep users from being frustrated by asking questions in an empty room. But as folks say, maybe a low volume list is just what our users want (or some of them). And since it's more effort to change things than to leave them alone, I lean towards leaving them alone. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
