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



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
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