On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@apache.org> wrote:

> BTW, it would have been better to send your question to the users@ list.
> The dev@ list is off-topic for questions like this. I suppose you chose
> dev@ because of your idea to develop support for cross-repository copies,
> which I'll address now:


At a meta-level, I've seen this dismissal and plea to just send to
users@instead happen a few times recently on dev@.
 I'd like to ensure we don't hinder potential contributors by sending out
the wrong tone in their initial interactions with dev@.  We welcome all
contributors with open arms.  To me, Zem's initial post was perfectly
appropriate for dev@ and given the ensuing discussions including some that
apparently happened off-list, it was (and is) a good catalyst for
discussion and bringing those discussions back to the list.  In other
words, in my opinion, a very good and on-topic dev@ post.

Back to the topic at hand, my take on this feature is it's probably a good
idea to figure out how to solve it...the landscape over a decade ago when
we started out isn't the same as it is now.  -- justin

P.S. Hi Zem!  =)

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