[llvm-dev] Suggestion to Stop Cross Posting Discussions

[Robinson, Paul via llvm-dev]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: llvm-dev [mailto:llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] On Behalf Of
> Daniel Sanders via llvm-dev
> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2016 2:11 AM
> To: Craig, Ben; llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
> Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] Suggestion to Stop Cross Posting Discussions
> 
> +1. I have a similar setup but I only seem to end up with one copy for
> some reason. It's very confusing to read the end of the conversation on
> llvm-dev, the beginning on cfe-dev, and finally the middle on lldb-dev.

I move *-dev to a single folder just to avoid this.
The sum of all *-dev traffic is not that much.
--paulr

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: llvm-dev [mailto:llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] On Behalf Of
> Craig,
> > Ben via llvm-dev
> > Sent: 05 July 2016 20:05
> > To: llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
> > Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] Suggestion to Stop Cross Posting Discussions
> >
> > +1 to do something, whether that something is to mail only on llvm-dev,
> > or to move those discussions to a 'community' or 'cross-project' list of
> > some sort.
> >
> > I -am- subscribed to cfe-def and llvm-dev, and as a result, I get most
> > of these messages twice.  I also have mail rules to put cfe-dev email in
> > one folder and llvm-dev email in another folder. When both mailing lists
> > are involved, the discussions end up in my llvm-dev folder, but
> > occasionally, someone will only reply on one of the lists.  I then get
> > to follow the discussion across folders, and that's no fun.
> >
> >
> > On 7/5/2016 1:59 PM, Hal Finkel via llvm-dev wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >> From: "John Criswell via llvm-dev" <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> > >> To: llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 1:51:27 PM
> > >> Subject: [llvm-dev] Suggestion to Stop Cross Posting Discussions
> > >>
> > >> Dear All,
> > >>
> > >> Within the past few months, there have been several discussions that
> > >> relate to LLVM and its sub-projects (such as the discussions on
> > >> moving
> > >> to Git and the Code of Conduct).  To ensure that these discussions
> > >> reach
> > >> all community members, people have been cross-posting these messages
> > >> to
> > >> llvmdev, cfe-dev, and every other -dev you can think of.
> > >>
> > >> This is becoming a headache for me (and possibly other mailing list
> > >> admins) because replies are often sent to every list, but not all
> > >> users
> > >> are subscribed to every list.  As a result, we're moderating messages
> > >> for people because they're subscribed to llvm-dev but not openmp-dev,
> > >> or
> > >> they are on cfe-dev but not llvm-dev, etc.
> > >>
> > >> Can we keep these policy discussions on llvm-dev and just expect
> > >> people
> > >> to subscribe to llvm-dev if they want to particpate? Alternatively,
> > >> could we create a new mailing list for these discussions?
> > >>
> > >> I'd rather spend time moderating first-poster posts and discarding
> > >> SPAM
> > >> than ensuring that all of you can post to all the lists.
> > > Perhaps this is the easiest solution: Make it so that anyone
> subscribed to
> > any of the -dev lists can post to all of them.
> > >
> > > Alternatively, we could have a "community" list to which anyone
> > subscribed to any of the -dev lists is automatically subscribed.
> > >
> > > We have a lot of people who are subscribed, for example, to cfe-dev
> and
> > not to llvm-dev, and I'm not sure that making them received backend-
> related
> > messages just to catch community-wide discussions is reasonable.
> > >
> > >   -Hal
> > >
> > >> Regards,
> > >>
> > >> John Criswell
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> John Criswell
> > >> Assistant Professor
> > >> Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester
> > >> http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/criswell
> > >>
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