On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 07:01 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 10/21/2013 07:48 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:07:25 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > >>> As a first step, I suggest clearing up the intended usage of "devel" list. > >>> There's too much traffic on that list. 792 messages so far in October. > >> This is way down from the peak 5-7 years ago. > > What is the reason? More people avoiding MLs like the plague? > > Too many MLs? > Yes, that's one aspect. > > Too many communication channels other than email? > May-be, but I doubt this. Actually I think many new packagers aren't > aware about the MLs and might be confused about which MLs to subscribe. > > I also believe contributors are unsubscribing from some MLs because they > consider some of them to be polluted by "bureaucratic chatter" - It's > what e.g. I consider the test and the perl-devel ML to be. ? test@ is a moderately low-traffic list (about a dozen mails a day), and I'm not sure what you'd characterize as 'bureaucratic chatter'? Unless you mean the updates-testing summary mails, which aren't really 'bureaucratic'. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
