On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 17:17 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Seth Nickell"> > > > To give a very graphic illustration of this.... based on a search of > > the archives, Havoc's last post to desktop-devel was over a year ago. > > Two days ago. :-) >
I think I do what most people do though, and browse through the list folder looking for people who really do work (or threads related to my pet topics) and I only read those threads. There are all these huge threads I skip. What's more important than what's skipped is: what isn't available to read at all. gnome-hackers-readonly was the right idea in my opinion, but - hey, I'm probably not going to read the whole thread about whether we should go back to it ;-) The reality is that GNOME is *more* closed because the open forum is unusable, so there isn't useful stuff to read, even read-only. The useful stuff is on intranets, private IRC, project-specific lists, and so forth. Don't get me wrong; the core GNOME contributors *also* post a lot of useless crap, I'm guilty in the past; but occasionally our useless crap has the social function of coordinating the core group, getting people on the same page, or venting big conflicts. Sometimes it has no function at all, but at least it's lower-volume than reading *everyone's* useless posts. ;-) Havoc _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list