Ross Gardler wrote:
Trying to learn from other projects, there is a good reason why
projects eventually move to split lists, but in my experience they
start with a single list.
Learning to use email clients to manage mail overload is an important
part of open source. Learning to manage and review commit messages is
an important part of CTR
What do other mentors think?
In my opinion, we need to keep one single discussion list. Splitting dev
and users at this stage of incubation would be an error because early
stage users are definitely advanced users and potential contributors
(and ultimately committers), and the amount of mail really doesn't
mandate it.
But I would separate discussion and commit messages, because they're not
of the same nature (commit mails are a by-product of developer activity,
and some commit a lot rarely and other a small bit very often) and can
make following conversations quite difficult.
Sylvain
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