Jean Delvare writes:
As a reference, when you need to dig something up again, it is much easier to do so with a single mailinglist and a single point of reference.
For any new user it is also much easier to just sign up to a single mailinglist than to have to describe and manage several.
Obviously, not everyone shares your point of view. I find it more appealing to have a low volume list with just the info I need, than a "high" (all relative, granted) volume list with much stuff I am not interested in. When I start receiving many posts I never read, I end up unsubscribing from the list, as my time can be used better.
Jean, since the traffic both on bugzilla and on commit is rather low compared to the other traffic on this list we decided to stay with this one list at the moment. The benefit of having bugzilla post sent to this list is that currently both this list and the freedesktop bugzilla are used to report bugs. We assume that people subscribed here are interested in the progress on the discussion of these bugs. Not having the mails sent here would exclude them from part of the discussion and we may see the same problem discussed twice - both here and on bugzilla. This works the other way around: anyone only subscribed to the bugzilla mailing list will only see part of the progress being made discussed here.
Plus, this is only for a single driver, the traffic will never be excessive and never has been so far. I do not expect this to change in any significant way. Even if we get slashdotted and the mailinglist gets flooded, we will still return to normal after a week or so.
Having bugs and commit messages sent to the same list is a feature. Everybody can easily track progress that way, no more git-pulling every five minutes, just scroll through the ML and find out.
Moot point, as split mailing lists would solve the problem just as fine.
Currently commit traffic is not really high. It's very much lower than the support traffic and other discussions we are seeing here. There are always arguments for splitting up MLs and at the same time there are just as many against it. One could introduce a 'users' list for just support questions to separate development issues but either this list gets ignored by 'experts' or will turn into a bug and development list just as well simply because the issues that show up there will also be discussed on this list. Cheers, Egbert. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org