Oh wait, it wasn't offlist. On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Martijn Dekkers <devuan-li...@dekkers.org.uk> wrote: >> The «long standing, wide-ranging implementation pattern» thing is a >> bogus argument. Similar to "Lots of people jump of bridges, care to >> join them?" > > > Thats just uninformed bullshit. "Patterns" are one of the cornerstones of > modern computing architecture - without patterns everybody will be doomed to > re-invent everything from the ground up. Comparing patterns with > bridge-jumping is ridiculous, and not a little bit stupid. Separate lists > are widely practiced in the open source community at large because they > work, not "because everybody else is doing it".
Still, convoluted arguments, feeble attempt at insult, does seem like a troll. > This discussion has gone from a simple request for a -dev list to a wide > ranging discussion about how we can do something similar without actually > going for the cheapest and easiest option (which is to have a separate > list). Interestingly, I see two broad groups. Those that want a simple dev > list, and those that absolutely don't want other people to have one, for the > most tenuous of arguments. There's the third camp of people who believes a dev-only list will generate self-segregation, meaning devs will only read that list. This isn't a profecy. Too much noise, i'll stop reading this thread. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng