On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:27:31AM +0000, Peter TB Brett wrote: <snip>
> If I remember correctly, a major factor in the closure of the gEDA-dev list > was that the signal to noise ratio became very low. There were several > people, few of whom *ever* submitted patches, loudly and rudely telling the > people who *were* writing code and having ideas how their approach was wrong, > the design was wrong, their ideas were wrong, how dare you change anything, > you *must* do it *my* way, etc etc etc. It got to the point that it was > actively *hindering* development, because it was very off-putting to the > actual > developers. > > Although the discussions on gEDA-dev are less frequent now, at least they are > usually quite constructive. > > Perhaps the time has come to reconsider the role of and access to the > gEDA-dev > list? How can we ensure that it doesn't collapse into an unproductive > bikeshedfest again? > It may be rude to state, but there are about 3 or 4 persons at most, who cause this sort of frustration on the user mailing list and on irc. I would say if you can set up some sort of simple, short but clear policy about what topics are for the dev list, and ban only those 3-4 persons, opening the dev list would be possible. Regards, Tibor Palinkas _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
