Splitting the lists?

[Philippe LeCavalier]

On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 07:15 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 18:42 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 05:17:09PM -0500, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
> > > 
> > > As a user, 90% of what's posted here makes no sense to me and is of
> > > little value. Do we need to separate users from devs? If I take my
> > > own posts as an example I get about a 50/50 chance of being replied
> > > to. I attribute that in part by the abundance of dev posts.
> > > 
> > > This isn't a complaint by any means. I love seeing so much work on
> > > this project but at the same time we must maintain an efficient
> > > method for resolving end-user problems and concerns.
> > 
> > Then, you could safely filter out threads having the tag PATCH in the
> > subject. Another option is to not subscribe to the mailing list.
> > Subscription is not a prerequisite to post here.
> > 
> > This mailing list is primaly meant for the development work. I'd like to
> > avoid a seperated users mailing list to keep users and developers as
> > near as possible, each other.
> > 
> Filtering is the best option I think. Perhaps an additional line at the
> bottom of the list footer saying:-
> 
> Please filter for the tag [PATCH] if you do not want to receive
> code-in-progress
> 
> would help?
> 

I think we're missing the point I was trying to make. The reason I
suggested this wasn't for my or any ones convenience of reading the
list . My concern with so much coding mail is that it seems to be
burying
user requests for help. Shouldn't this type of chatter be better
documented
/ more appropriate in a bug tracking system anyway? Pardon my ignorance
here -I'm getting pretty far off my comfort zone as I don't know much
about the process of coding especially the communication thereof...

Phil
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