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Re: [eclipse.org-committers] What is appropriate use of this list
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+1. I did the same.
Joseph P Toomey wrote:
If I understand the comments so far, it seems clear that there was a
desire on the part of the Architecture Council to re-purpose an
existing mailing list which had been clearly designated as an
"important announcement" channel, and turn it into a general "discuss
whatever *you* think is interesting to the entire committer community"
blathering list. This is deemed a good thing because, at least we're
talking. And unless you want to renounce your committer rights, you
can't unsubscribe.
I guess you guys win. (Except Ed and perhaps the silent majority of
~1000 committers who have been treated to this religious debate.)
After 6 years as an eclipse committer, I just created a mail rule to
move all e-mail from eclipse.org-committers to a folder that I'll pay
less attention to. If that was the goal (to reduce the visibility
and attention paid to "eclipse.org-committers" e-mails) -- mission
accomplished.
In the spirit of not just complaining about something, I suggest that
it would have been better to make a second mailing list, even if it
was also mandatory subscription (perhaps
eclipse.org-committers-discussion). After all, a mailing list is more
than just its subscriber list. It also has a stated purpose, and can
be filtered accordingly. i.e. I'd still let eclipse.org-committers go
to my Inbox for prompt attention, while I'd feel less urgency to read
the 50 e-mails and counting about CVS vs. SVN. As much as I enjoyed
the poetry about how painful it is to administer a SVN backend, it's
difficult to argue that it was more important for me to read that
e-mail than to do my "day job".
--Joe
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Joe Toomey
Senior Software Engineer
Rational Software
IBM Software Group
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