Howard Butler wrote:
On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:40 AM, Ari Jolma wrote:
Folks,
gdal-dev has grown to more than 10 mails per day. There are a lot of
mails about using gdal (often programming questions but still just using
gdal through one of the APIs). I propose to split this list into
gdal-dev (for mails that relate to development of and bugs in gdal) and
gdal-users. If users want to get the attention of specific developer
(who knows the inner workings best) I propose a habit of adding into the
subject the name of the driver or HL interface or another identifier.
I'm -1 on this proposal at this time. Splitting our community in this way
fragments our community and implicitly categorizes one kind of question (for
developers) as somehow more important than another (for users).
I comment only on this one. I wouldn't say more important, just
different. Having a separate list would help to keep those apart. I'm a
bit afraid that some developer discussions are lost because of all the
traffic. Maybe I'm just not very good with my emails :)
Ari
If we were 20 messages a day, most of these were usage questions, and there
was plenty of non-developer user-to-user help across the forum, I would be more
in support of splitting things up. I don't think we're there yet.
Howard
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