Devin Heitmueller wrote:
People "in favor" of the lists being merged 118 Patrick Boettcher 205 Hans Verkuil 38 Mike Isely 196 Devin Heitmueller "hundreds" Mauro Carvalho Chehab People "against" of the lists being merged 2 Lars Hanisch 17 user.vdr 16 Klaus Schmidinger 2 Bob Cunningham 10 Tomas Drajsajtl 17 Ales Jurik
Just for the records: I'm "in favor" of the merge, not against... Or have I missunderstood the post I replied to? Never mind. :)
Yup, it's the developers who are posting on a regular basis who feel the pain of the two different lists. It's the people who are actively replying to issues, dealing with problems, and trying to keep track of it all who want the lists merged. That said, I personally don't feel any guilt in inconveniencing a few users who are not contributing if it makes it easier for the people who contribute to the list on a daily basis.
I'm a "user-only" of my PVR150/350 since about 2 years and I read these lists (ivtv-devel, ivtv-users, video4linux, and now linux-media) because I want to stay in touch with the really good work you developers are doing (also a "Thank you" from my wife, who loves our VDR). And I want to know when some of the issues I encounter are solved, so I can update my kernel. Sadly I haven't the time to invest my development-knowledge into linux-driver-development (my daily work is application-development, and yes, it's windows, shame on me ;-)). So, if the lists get merged or not, I still will be reading them. I just want to give a view from a passive reader. And from that point of view a merge would be fine... But I agree that the main developers should be the ones that have the final stay on this.
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