On Thu, 1 May 2003, Cliff L. Biffle wrote: > Well said. > > Speaking as someone who -is- subscribed to both current_at_ and cvs-all_at_, I got > something on the order of three hundred new messages from the two lists > today. Expecting a user of 5.0-RELEASE who is tracking head for the bugfixes > to read -- or even skim -- all these is, well, a tall order. > > However, I also recognize that a lot of developers aren't interested in > answering questions, particularly ones that, to someone immersed in the code, > seem dumb. > > Perhaps a new mailing list is in order? I'm generally not a proponent of > fragmenting mailing lists, since more often than not the people with > questions are on one, while the people with answers are on another. However, > what do y'all think about a current-questions sort of list? current_at_ tends > to be more devel-oriented, and questions_at_ tends to be clueless about -current > or even 5.0. I know I would have benefited from it greatly early on (and > probably still would). > > As far as searching the mailing list archives, that's all well and good -- as > long as you know what to search for, which a lot of people don't. "My > computer won't leave the bootloader" doesn't translate for most people into a > search query of "disabling ACPI." :-) (For relatively recent converts, it > doesn't even translate to "my computer won't leave the bootloader," for that > matter.) The fact of the matter is that humans are vastly better > natural-language search engines than what we have on the mailing list > manager, assuming they're in a position to answer questions (are willing and > have the time). A separate questions list might resolve this...maybe. > Thoughts? I think this is a special situation which will be solved as soon as there is a 5.x -STABLE. Until then everybody should remember that one simply doesn't have to answer mails that get on one's nerves. Uli. > > -Cliff L. Biffle > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > +-----------------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | - Wuppertal - | | Germany | +-----------------------------------+Received on Wed Apr 30 2003 - 23:03:12 UTC
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