Re: signal-to-noise on d-d-l

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:35:52AM -0500 or thereabouts, Luis Villa wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 00:26, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> >
> > > Desktop issues -> d-d-l. Global issues -> g-h. If we remove some of the
> > > 'power' of d-d-l, then the "oddballs" won't feel like it's such a great
> > > platform for their crack. 
> >
> > Great, they'll move to g-h. That really solves the problem! :)
>
>
> gnome-hackers has been very quiet recently. It would at least
> solve the problem of clutter on d-d-l :) 

But to change this, you need to have the gnome-hackers list shed its 
impression of being the old, stuffy and boring list that nobody really 
bothers with in these modern days. As almost all the action is in d-d-l, 
 why would people take the time to be bothered about gnome-hackers?

> I think any project with multiple mailing lists has this problem.
> And a major factor is inappropriate cross-posting. It is often
> good to cross-post the initial email so that people are in the
> loop. But then _say in the email_ which list you expect the 
> discussion to go on. And set follow-ups :) 

Without cross-posts, gnome-hackers would be a relatively empty list ;-)

> This is actually in the Gnome Enhancement Procedure stuff, isn't
> it? There's a bit about where discussion is to take place. 
> Perhaps we should be doing that more on the lists in general?

GEP appears to have died more than a year ago, though.

> Telsa