On 26 Jul 2007, Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com> wrote: | On 7/26/07, Diego Novillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > >I would like to propose the creation a new mailing list: | > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > > | > >The purpose of this list is to attract and help new GCC developers who | > >might feel lost and intimidated by the more arcane traffic at gcc and | > >gcc-patches. In this list, no question regarding GCC development should | > >be considered offtopic nor treated with "RTFM" responses. | | On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:05:50PM -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote: | > I think this is the wrong aproach. I have not seen any "RTFM" | > response for questions of developing of GCC on the gcc@ list. | | Agreed. Also, I think that the charter that Diego describes sounds a | lot like the charter for gcc-help. And since everyone will read | "GCC development" as "development using GCC as the compiler" it would | quickly become a general Linux/BSD/Unix/GNU tools questions list. | What would go to gcc-help, and what to gcc-newbies? I think it's | good enough what we have now. Also, I don't see the point in tossing | junior or beginner gcc developers off of the main list. | I think that when we do steer someone to a different list, we could | take more care to be polite about it than we sometimes are.
Other candidates: gcc-how-to-use@ gcc-using@ gcc-for-users@ ( i dislike java-for-users@, fortran-for-users@, ... ) gcc-hacks@ <- why not? Have we too many mailing lists? The users don't want to join and detach to many mailing lists to post only a message once by week or month. He wants to post quickly, not to post slowly more than 10 minutes. Why can't we have a unified mailing list using javascript in http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/ instead of http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-07/? Join once, but post the message to the corresponding e-mail of the unified mailing list. Sincerely :)
