Thanks to everybody who commented on the splitting darcs-users thread from September [1].
Taking your advice into account, I decided to go with a traditional user/devel split. So if you are interested in participating in, or observing darcs development, darcs-devel is now open for human traffic. Please subscribe at http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel Here are my recommendations. They are fairly loose and they shy away from trying to cut the lists up into themes: 1. Developers: please subscribe to both users and devel. I hope this is a reasonable request given the size of our community. If you're using auto-filtering, it may be a good idea to make sure that darcs-devel is as visible to you as darcs-users is. I want people to be confident that they can reach developers by sending messages to darcs-users. I also want #3 to work. 2. Patch tracker and issue tracker traffic both go to darcs-devel. This should cut traffic in about half for people on darcs-users. (Issue tracker traffic was always to darcs-devel, but patch tracker traffic was to darcs-users) Developers: if you're not used to seeing issue tracker traffic, you're in for a bit more noise. 3. Don't worry about what the "right" place for a discussion is. As far as I'm concerned, the only difference is that darcs-devel has a smaller audience and more traffic than darcs-users. If you really want some hints: - Use darcs-devel for patches and patch reviews. Low-level nuts and bolts discussions could probably go here too, for example, discussing how the screened branch is used. - Use darcs-users for anything you want a bigger audience for. Strategic discussions like the Darcs roadmap should probably go here. Discussions on new features, and user-facing stuff like config file formats, or retiring old-fashioned are fair game for darcs-users as far as I'm concerned. Basically, if you worrying about which list to use, you may be thinking too hard. Anyway, I hope this has the intended effect! Eric [1] http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-September/025380.html PS. apologies to anybody receiving a huge batch of darcs messages in one go; mailman got stuck on our end -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> For a faster response, try +44 (0)1273 64 2905 or xmpp:[email protected] (Jabber or Google Talk only)
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