From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IAlJU-000836-Og for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:33:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6HBWNNM023169; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:32:23 GMT Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de (mo-p07-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.190]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6HBTCYZ018730 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:29:12 GMT Received: from oct.local.devrieze.net ([210.1.194.130]) by post.webmailer.de (fruni mo52) (RZmta 8.3) with ESMTP id B00161j6HA3QMF for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:29:11 +0200 (MEST) From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:29:09 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <46968E00.4070202@gentoo.org> <1184339318.32429.19.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com> <1184340857.18595.1200020695@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1184340857.18595.1200020695@webmail.messagingengine.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707172129.09293.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-RZG-AUTH: kl51CIkHMwISfnYDoiNJgMuHR/Blg5MDmwdH0Ia0PPOPtvsc0k7H31tk X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo07 X-Archives-Salt: a61e2467-8438-4b61-a489-e96a911a3745 X-Archives-Hash: 783460bfe604110feee3065fea224589 On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:34:17 Thomas Tuttle wrote: > > Personally, I prefer quicker mechanisms to slower ones, but some people > dislike real-time communications because they can interrupt their work > constantly. I think what's important is not the signal-to-noise ratio, > per se, but the relevant-to-irrelevant ratio. To me, it makes no > difference whether the traffic that I don't care about is spam/trolls or > just discussion of another project. So I'd support -dev being for > coordination of core development and -project being for other things, so > that people can read all of -dev easily and simply pay attention to only > what they want to see on -project. But I see no reason to moderate > either -- #-dev is moderated because IRC is an easy medium to disrupt. > It's a lot harder to wander on to a mailing list and start trolling, and > it's easier to block. Many people also have very little time to invest into gentoo. For those it is not possible to be on IRC often, while for e-mail you can indeed save up things until the end of the day and reply when it is convenient to you. As such a -dev mailing list is much more useful than a #-dev IRC channel. Ignoring the list is ignoring many developers who want to do work instead of monitoring IRC. Paul -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list