[llvm] r178424 - [docs] Reorganize mailing lists.

[David Blaikie]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:00 AM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would've thought people would join announce before dev. Dev seems to be
>> a strict superset of announce.
>
>
> In retrospect, my ordering is to promote "getting a newbie involved with the
> community". llvm-announce is so low-volume (and non-interactive) that
> joining it will not really help a newbie get involved with the community.

One would sort of expect many contributors to come by way of being
users first - where the announce list might matter to them.

> TBH, to this day I'm not even subscribed to llvm-announce and didn't even
> know it existed for a long time (and looking at the archives it doesn't seem
> that I'm missing much).

Yeah, I'll admit to a similar experience myself - I would think the
announce list would be where people would start, but my experience
doesn't really bear that out either. (granted I came in looking to
contribute pretty much off the bat, rather than looking to be a user -
maybe it's just that end users don't really follow this release
schedule, they pick it up from their distro, etc)

- David