Remove link from github to phobos mailing list?

[Iain Buclaw]

On 12 March 2014 08:40, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 3/12/14, 12:51 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>
>> On 3/11/14, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> They could be separated into two lists, but is that what any of the
>>> developers want?
>>
>>
>> I'd want the dmd internals NG to be split up:
>>
>> http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.109.1392491086.6445.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com
>
>
> If its what people want, then I'll make the changes (at least on the mailing
> list and github config side of things, I can't do anything with the news
> groups or the forum configs).
>
> That said, I figured a few stats might be interesting and might help inform
> the value of the split.  Since December 4 (where the log I'm using happens
> to start), through today, for the Phobos list, here's a break down of the
> number of days having a given post count (note, 0 post days will be missing
> from this since there won't have been any log lines to process, someone do
> the math to fill that line in for us :)
>
>    # days   # posts
>      18       1
>      15       2
>       9       3
>      14       4
>       6       5
>       5       6
>       6       7
>       3       8
>       1       9
>       3      10
>       2      11
>       2      12
>       1      17
>       1      19
>       1      23
>       1      26
>
> This doesn't split between github vs non-github traffic, it's the two
> combined.  So, the vast majority of days have less than 10 messages.  That's
> such a tiny amount that I'm amazed that anyone is remotely concerned.
>

>From a perspective of someone who interacts with the ML through his
own mail client, I don't feel concerned either about the extraneous
traffic.  At least I get messages for things that I should be aware
of.

>From the perspective of someone who sees the ML as a forum though....