Moving patches traffic to a another list?

[Pierre-Yves David]

On 3/20/20 5:34 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
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>> On Mar 20, 2020, at 12:09, Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
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>> On 3/20/20 4:42 PM, Martin von Zweigbergk via Mercurial-devel wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 8:39 AM Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org <mailto:pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org>> wrote:
>>>     On 3/20/20 4:19 PM, Yuya Nishihara wrote:
>>>      > unless we're willing to use the mailing list (or plain emails)
>>>     extensively.
>>>     That's what I am trying to achieve here :-), more direct communication
>>>     between developers.
>>> An alternative for that is to set up a new mercurial-devel-discuss@ or something and encourage design discussions to go to that list. We already have #mercurial also. I don't think the new mailing list would get much traffic.
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>> I am -1 on creating a new list for discussion. We have a lot of subscribers here that I do not want to loose in the process. The goal is to reach out to more people. Not less.
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> Should we see if we could get only "new patch" mails from phabricator sent here, and shove everything else in some other list for archival purposes? It sounds like the subject lines are sometimes useful to get folks interested in a patch, but the rest is noise...


I feel like there are two differents way phabricator gets noisy. First 
there are the cheer number of emails on each diff, that your proposal 
(of sending the initial one on mercurial-devel@) would tackle, However 
there are also the fact that emails in a series are not threaded, so it 
is harder to group them, we can't do mass action on them (like marking a 
whole thread as read/deleted) and the first problem is exacerbated.

The proposal to only send the initial patch will make things better, but 
I don't know if they will make them good. I would says "lets give it a 
try" if I know it was technically easy. Keeping in mind the option of 
taking a harder stance later.

> (To be clear: I have no idea if this can be done.)

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Pierre-Yves David