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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "erlware-dev" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/erlware-dev?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Martin Logan >>> Erlang & OTP in Action (Manning) http://manning.com/logan >>> http://twitter.com/martinjlogan >>> http://erlware.org >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "erlware-dev" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/erlware-dev?hl=en. >>> >>> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "erlware-dev" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/erlware-dev?hl=en. > > -- Martin Logan Erlang & OTP in Action (Manning) http://manning.com/logan http://twitter.com/martinjlogan http://erlware.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "erlware-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/erlware-dev?hl=en.
