OK, thanks for explaining Felipe, Using development communities in this way makes sense. Thanks David On 12 July 2010 12:19, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:14 PM, David Bainbridge > <david.bainbridge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On the question of spamming here is another aspect; if I send mail to >> everyone on a public list then it is spam. If I send a message to >> everyone at work asking them to respond then I am just doing my job. >> The problem is how to address the unpaid volunteer sector of the open >> source community without being perceived as spamming. > > Note that perhaps spamming is not the right word. > > I think the plan is to send the mail only to the communities that use > git, so chances are that many people would be interested on filling > out the survey. It has been done in previous years, and I think nobody > complained. > > -- > Felipe Contreras > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html