I'm going to have to agree with Ed on this whole thing about the use of
this list. I typically subscribe to email distribution lists on
individual topics I want to be informed about. The issue for me is
that as a Committer I need to stay subscribed to this, but unless it's
something really really important from the foundation then it becomes
noise to me. I already have enough mailing lists from eclipse in my in
box, and get enough email from day to day work activities that it
becomes a hassle to wade my way through what I deem not important and
then have to delete.
Personally, I like the newsgroup idea but realize that not everybody can
get access to newsgroups because of corporate rules, it's the one down
fall to newsgroups. I would support a separate mailing list that was
called eclipse.org-commiters-discussion or
eclipse.org-committers-announce that we could subscribe to or
unsubscribe to.
Give the committer a choice in what they are subscribed to and what they
want to listen to...If i really want to follow something via the
newsgroup type polling, I can go out to the web interface and view the
archives.