On 12 March 2014 08:40, Brad Roberts <bra...@puremagic.com> wrote: > On 3/12/14, 12:51 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: >> >> On 3/11/14, Brad Roberts <bra...@puremagic.com> wrote: >>> >>> They could be separated into two lists, but is that what any of the >>> developers want? >> >> >> I'd want the dmd internals NG to be split up: >> >> http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.109.1392491086.6445.digitalmar...@puremagic.com > > > If its what people want, then I'll make the changes (at least on the mailing > list and github config side of things, I can't do anything with the news > groups or the forum configs). > > That said, I figured a few stats might be interesting and might help inform > the value of the split. Since December 4 (where the log I'm using happens > to start), through today, for the Phobos list, here's a break down of the > number of days having a given post count (note, 0 post days will be missing > from this since there won't have been any log lines to process, someone do > the math to fill that line in for us :) > > # days # posts > 18 1 > 15 2 > 9 3 > 14 4 > 6 5 > 5 6 > 6 7 > 3 8 > 1 9 > 3 10 > 2 11 > 2 12 > 1 17 > 1 19 > 1 23 > 1 26 > > This doesn't split between github vs non-github traffic, it's the two > combined. So, the vast majority of days have less than 10 messages. That's > such a tiny amount that I'm amazed that anyone is remotely concerned. >
>From a perspective of someone who interacts with the ML through his own mail client, I don't feel concerned either about the extraneous traffic. At least I get messages for things that I should be aware of. >From the perspective of someone who sees the ML as a forum though....
