Hi Greg,
On 29 May 2016, at 0:15, Greg Stein wrote:
I don't think users@ makes sense.
I just looked at the past 30 days, and there *might* be 10 messages.
That
isn't exactly an encumbrance upon the dev list. So now you're talking
about
partitioning the overall community into smaller parts. Parts that
cannot
reach "critical mass".
Counterpoint: the Subversion project took THREE YEARS before creating
a
separate users list. Mynewt isn't anything close to a user-driven
project
like svn. And the project is just *months* old.
The users of mynewt are unlikely to be noobs who cannot deal with
people on
the dev@ list. This is a low-level project. It seems irrational to
believe
they are not "lifting the hood" to look at the mynewt code; there is
no
"scaring them off". They are quite likely to be great participants in
dev
discussion. We want them *here* where we can talk with them.
I generally agree with you, and there is no doubt that this is
premature. However, I’d point out a few dynamics here:
- with IoT, a lot of people are working their way down the stack.
Especially makers. Not all of those people want to ask questions on a
kernel development mailing list. But we want to provide them with
support, and encourage them to ask questions.
- kernel development mailing lists don’t have the best reputation for
being friendly places to ask questions :-) we’ll try and overcome
that.
- mynewt has a fairly large surface area, that a great number of new
users are not familiar with. SVN was largely CVS-like in nature, and
the functions you’d use on a daily basis were far smaller - meaning as
a new user you needed less support to get started.
That said, I don’t have a strong feeling on this one personally. I
would subscribe to both lists, as I’m interested in the types of
support questions being asked/want to help out. And, as you point out,
the traffic is not overwhelming :-)
Sterling
