On 24.08.2009, at 11:24, Frank Shearar wrote:

> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> On 23.08.2009, at 23:51, Michael van der Gulik wrote:
>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> Would it perhaps be better to have the automated trunk commit  
>>> messages going to some other dedicated mailing list?
>>>
>>> Gulik.
>> I was curious how long it would take the first one to speak up :)
>
> Hah, yes indeed :)
>
>> No, I would rather create a squeak-users list for those not  
>> interested in developing Squeak itself, but just "with" Squeak.  
>> IMHO the commits messages make the community development process  
>> visible, which is a Good Thing.
>
> Well, while they are a bit noisy, I don't mind them, and they _do_  
> provide visibility into the process. I can't say I read all of them,  
> but   I like having the option of just skimming diffs if I feel the  
> urge.
>
> Other mailing lists do the same: slime-devel have a "Daily Commit  
> Log" message. That might be an option if people find the messages  
> TOO noisy: bundle the commits into a single message per day. Pros:  
> less noise on the list; cons: higher latency for those interested.  
> But, I guess, one could have BOTH: a daily message with all the  
> commits (or a summary, if the message ends up bigger than 100K) to  
> squeak-dev and, er, a squeak-dev-dev for the full fat option.


That's precisely what I proposed an hour before ;) Wanna work on it?

- Bert -