You are not the audience :)  You are excited about sending your
patches out. There are a few people that want to see your patches, but
the majority don't have plans to develop directly in sinan, and even
if they did, the patches coming out require a lot of work to gain
appropriate context on.


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Eric Merritt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just a follow up. We have done this in the past. Back in 2008, we
> where sending patches to the list. I was looking at the archive today
> and the patches seemed to stimulate a lot of discussions and we seem
> to have gotten a ton more patches then we do now. I would like to see
> that happen again. The list is dead at the moment and though a ton of
> development is going on across several projects thats not apparent.
> Thats not the purpose of sending the patches to the list, the purpose
> is publishing change. However, it is a very nice side benefit and its
> something that I see happen in any organization that uses this
> approach.
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Eric Merritt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I disagree, of course, its not spam. And it is very contextually
>> relevant to the erlware-dev list. Though I wouldn't suggest it for the
>> erlware-questions. I am assuming here that the folks on erlware-dev
>> are either participating in or interested in erlware development. That
>> given I can't imagine how change to the code base, or change that
>> people are submitting to the code base isn't relevant. And for those
>> folks that want to be on the dev list, but not really interested in
>> development, the subjects are tagged and hence they can get out of it
>> fairly easily.
>>
>> I am not a big fan of a seperate list, it defeats the purpose.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Martin Logan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I am not a fan of it. It turns the dev-list into a spam list. The
>>> patches are not contextual enough for most people on the list to get
>>> value out of and therefore are not useful to the majority of folks. We
>>> have a separate list for that sort of commication that I think people
>>> can sign up for if they want to see this traffic.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Eric Merritt <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Guys,
>>>>
>>>>  I am a big fan of patches going to the dev mailing list, in the style
>>>> of the git mailing list or the kernel. I think its a great way to
>>>> interact with the community and peers. I do this at in my professional
>>>> life and want to get back to it with open source projects. So I am
>>>> seriously considering moving back to pushing these through the this
>>>> mailing list. For those of you not wanting to receive them, each
>>>> commit email will have a tagged subject line in the form of
>>>> [*project-name* PATCH] and so should be easy to send off into your
>>>> bulk mail folder or trash. I figured I would poll the community, and
>>>> if people didn't explode startup with the next set of public patches
>>>> to one of the erlware projects.
>>>>
>>>> Eric
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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