Meta-issue: multiple mailig lists

2005-05-10 Thread Elliotte Harold
Is there any chance or interest in splitting this mailing list up into multiple mailing lists, one per subproject? I (and I suspect many other subscribers) am interested in a couple of the subprojects, but most of the traffic is fairly irrelevant to me. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Meta-issue: multiple mailig lists

2005-05-10 Thread Mario Ivankovits
Elliotte Harold wrote: Is there any chance or interest in splitting this mailing list up into multiple mailing lists, one per subproject? I (and I suspect many other subscribers) am interested in a couple of the subprojects, but most of the traffic is fairly irrelevant to me. I feel very comfort

Re: Meta-issue: multiple mailig lists

2005-05-10 Thread Mattias J
Elliotte Harold wrote: Is there any chance or interest in splitting this mailing list up into multiple mailing lists, one per subproject? +1 + 1 common mailing list (commons-common :-) ) - for mails like this. Mario Ivankovits wrote: I do have an easy overlook whats new in other projects, the traf

Re: Meta-issue: multiple mailig lists

2005-05-10 Thread Mario Ivankovits
Mattias J wrote: I do have an easy overlook whats new in other projects, the traffic is not that high. Then what would be high traffic to you? Take a look at the hibernate forum. This is really high traffic. If it was not for all the commits and bug/issue mails there would be no problem. But for

Re: Meta-issue: multiple mailig lists

2005-05-10 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi Elliotte, On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 06:17 -0400, Elliotte Harold wrote: > Is there any chance or interest in splitting this mailing list up into > multiple mailing lists, one per subproject? I (and I suspect many other > subscribers) am interested in a couple of the subprojects, but most of > th

Re: Meta-issue: multiple mailig lists

2005-05-10 Thread Elliotte Harold
Simon Kitching wrote: And quite often a commons project has only 1 or 2 regular committers. If it were on its own list, then there's no oversight of that project by the general commons community. A project could die and rot without anyone noticing. Perhaps what's needed then is a separate commons-d

Re: Meta-issue: multiple mailig lists

2005-05-10 Thread Mattias J
Simon Kitching wrote: Often I have struck a problem, and been given advice from committers on quite different projects. So an additional common list - which forwards to all the separate ones - is still a good idea. Simon Kitching wrote: Every email is supposed to contain the name of the subproje

Re: Meta-issue: multiple mailig lists

2005-05-10 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 5/10/05, Mattias J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Kitching wrote: > [snip] > Elliotte Harold wrote: > >I suspect some of the less active lists may be so primarily because few > >people care about those projects enough to wade through all the projects > >they don't care about. Having separate

Re: Meta-issue: multiple mailig lists

2005-05-11 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 08:38 +0200, Mattias J wrote: > Would it be possible to set up the svn commit mails to include this in *the > beginning* of the subject line? As I said, all my e-mail client shows is > (for example) "svn commit: r169326 -". This is a nice idea if it can be done. If you can