Hiatus, Improving Participation in D Development

[dsimcha]

On Sunday, 15 July 2012 at 15:46:38 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 July 2012 at 04:02:48 UTC, dsimcha wrote:
>> 5.  The amount of stuff on this forum and the mailing lists 
>> has become overwhelming.  I've recently remedied this to a 
>> small degree by unsubscribing from dmd-internals.  I've never 
>> been a contributor to the compiler itself and had only 
>> subscribed to this list to track bug fixes and 64-bit support 
>> implementation.
>> Now, the signal-to-noise ratio of my inbox is good enough that 
>> I actually read the Phobos and druntime stuff again instead of 
>> just glossing over all my D-related email.
>
> I take it you are referring to the GitHub commit messages which 
> are relayed to dmd-internals? Because except for those (which I 
> just made a filter rule for), the list is really quite 
> low-volume. Maybe we should create a dedicated d-commits list 
> to which all the GitHub notifications get sent, similar to what 
> other projects have? The occasional post-commit discussion 
> could then be continued on one of the repository-specific 
> lists, just like they are now.
>
> David

Yeah.  The problem is that for a while, D mailing lists became so 
overwhelming that I got into the habit of reflexively ignoring 
them completely due to poor signal-to-noise ratio w.r.t stuff I 
actually work on and being preoccupied with other things.  Your 
idea may be a good one, since only the core DMD devs care about 
every commit but others might want to participate in higher level 
discussions.