Gwern Branwen wrote: > Hi everyone. So I happened to notice > <http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-April/011722.html> > while searching today: > >> 'Whoa. For those who didn't follow the link, it's to an announcement on >> darcs-devel that Darcs 2.0.0 has been released. > >> I'm subscribed to darcs-users because I thought it would bring me that >> kind of information. Was it a deliberate choice not to announce it >> here, or just an oversight?' > > It turns out to have been an oversight, but I still think it's worth > noting. > > While we're revamping darcs and project structures and merging development > branches, perhaps we should merge the two mailing lists. > > This strikes me as a good idea. Two mailing lists is adding complexity > beyond what is necessary; if you really want to follow darcs, you have to > subscribe to both, and that leads to confusion sometimes. (Not to tout > myself, but I didn't even realize there was a mailing list beyond > darcs-dev until today.) > > Further, looking through March on darcs-users > <http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-March/thread.html>, I > see a lot of stuff which is quite obviously -dev business, like this one: > <http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2008-March/011593.html>. > > Doesn't look like anyone answered him. > > 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. > > I'd note that while -users and -dev may be a traditional split, it isn't > necessary. XMonad and Yi get along fine with a single mailing list to > which developers and users both subscribe, and in my experience, they're > better projects (lighter-weight, better consensuses, a faster & more > user-driven dev cycle) for not being segmented. In short, I see no > downside to a single 'darcs' mailing list subsuming darcs-dev and > darcs-users. > > Thoughts? I know from #darcs that I'm not alone in this sentiment.
No thoughts, ... I agree wholeheartedly. Cheers Ben _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
