On Sunday, 15 July 2012 at 15:46:38 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Sunday, 15 July 2012 at 04:02:48 UTC, dsimcha wrote:
5. The amount of stuff on this forum and the mailing lists
has become overwhelming. I've recently remedied this to a
small degree by unsubscribing from dmd-internals. I've never
been a contributor to the compiler itself and had only
subscribed to this list to track bug fixes and 64-bit support
implementation.
Now, the signal-to-noise ratio of my inbox is good enough that
I actually read the Phobos and druntime stuff again instead of
just glossing over all my D-related email.
I take it you are referring to the GitHub commit messages which
are relayed to dmd-internals? Because except for those (which I
just made a filter rule for), the list is really quite
low-volume. Maybe we should create a dedicated d-commits list
to which all the GitHub notifications get sent, similar to what
other projects have? The occasional post-commit discussion
could then be continued on one of the repository-specific
lists, just like they are now.
David
Yeah. The problem is that for a while, D mailing lists became so
overwhelming that I got into the habit of reflexively ignoring
them completely due to poor signal-to-noise ratio w.r.t stuff I
actually work on and being preoccupied with other things. Your
idea may be a good one, since only the core DMD devs care about
every commit but others might want to participate in higher level
discussions.
