[Buildroot] About user support and the mailing list
Arnout Vandecappelle
arnout at mind.be
Wed Oct 16 21:56:18 UTC 2013
On 15/10/13 21:44, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Peter Korsgaard<jacmet at uclibc.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> >>>>>>"Ryan" == Ryan Barnett<rjbarnet at rockwellcollins.com> writes:
>> >
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> > >> That would separate the high traffic/fast reading parts from the
>> > >> low traffic/philosophical discussion parts.
>> >
>> > Ryan> I really like this idea as I believe it fits well with how this
>> > Ryan> FOSS project works. The majority of the emails are related to
>> > Ryan> patches and discussion surrounding them. I usually glance through
>> > Ryan> these emails since I don't necessarily have time to read through
>> > Ryan> all of the patches. So by having this separation would be nice
>> > Ryan> as that way I don't accidentally glance over a philosophical
>> > Ryan> discussion such as this.
>> >
>> >The problem is that these things are rarely nicely seperated. This
>> >thread started as a reply to a patch submission.
> This is not necessarily a big problem. If a discussion occurs on the
> 'patch' mailing list that is no longer directly related with the
> actual patch, we should at least put the 'discussion' mailing list in
> copy (or use only that list). In the beginning this can be odd, but
> it's something we can learn.
I was first against the -patch / -discuss split for the same reasons as
Peter's, but as you say, it's easy to add -discuss to a reply.
If this split goes through, I'd keep buildroot at busybox.net as the
-discuss list and create a new one for patches.
Patchwork should probably listen to both, since people will (certainly
in the beginning) still send patches to the normal list.
Regards,
Arnout
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