do you know enough about what (other) Bazaar developers are doing?

[Talden]

>> >> 1. Maybe it's time to split the ML into development and user lists.
>> >> High traffic seems to be a common complaint.
>> >
>> > I think we should hold off on this for as long as possible. Obviously
>> > when that point is up for debate, and it may be that we've reached it.
>>
>> I agree with that principle, but I think we may have reached that point.
>>
>> I was sprinting last week, and it took me 'till today to catch up with
>> the list.  I've heard of people unsubscribing from the ML due to its
>> volume and now we hear from someone declaring "email bankruptcy" and
>> marking all messages "read".
>
> On the other hand, dividing the lists *by intent* divides the community.

Dividing the lists is not all good news in Subversion. There are
important usability questions raised on the dev list that really,
really should be seen by the user-base. Additionally users (not devs
that are also users) don't understand the difference between the lists
and there are always "help me, I don't understand how to do X"
questions placed on the dev list - the devs try and deal with this
directly with a "don't ask here, go there" response, but some users,
not really understanding the difference in list purpose, interpret
this as an unwillingness to help users.

I understand the motivation but I'm not certain it works that well.

Communication of dev activity to users will be crucial - devs may very
well camp on the user list but never post to it and therefore users
never see what's going on in efforts to improve, and change, the tool.
 Users I expect will need to be on both lists.  Devs who expect to
keep a finger on the pulse of the community will need to be on both
lists too...

We need to be really sure we have a volume problem before we solve it
with something that itself brings problems.

--
Talden