Perhaps adopting a convention for the subject line, like "Usage question: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"? We're still a small list, so it wouldn't be horribly cumbersome. If the list grew beyond 150 or so<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number>active users, or if the signal:noise ratio grew too low, perhaps then that would be a good time to readdress the issue.
I confess that I haven't had to deal with such things before, so I'm not familiar with the practices that may work in other groups faced with a similar issue. On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > > > >> would it be possible to have separate mailing lists for usage topics > and > >> for discussions of ongoing development? I imagine that might help those > >> who just want to use git (like me) to find their way around. > > > > AFAIAC you can have your "users-only" mailing list. Personally, I will > > never look at it, though, since all I am interested in is the > development > > of Git. If that holds true for the majority of Git _developers_, it > might > > even be a bad idea to have a separate users' list, since then > > > > - no ideas from strictly-users would flow to the developers, and > > > > - new developments would not reach you, and > > > > - you would not get help by the people knowing the internals _deeply_. > > Personally, I suspect I would end up subscribing to both, but > two mailing lists would make it much more cumbersome than > necessary to correlate the original user "itch" request that > triggered an enhancement, the discussion that clarified the > design constraints and requirements, and the patch and the > review comments that lead to the final implementation, > especially if you do not encourage cross posting to both lists. > And of course cross posting will make user-only list more > technical which would defeat the original point of having two > lists. > > "users-only" list could probably created by readers' MUA, by > picking emails that do not have "diff --git" in its body; that > would probably be a good enough approximation for people who are > not interested in the technical discussions. >
