Re: On the popularity of git

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 11/03/2015 03:43 PM, Juanma Barranquero wrote:

>  > 40 msg/day would be ridiculously high for this subscriber.
>
> That's messages, not threads, so a few threads to silence if they
> disturb you.

The "silence thread" feature in my email client does not work nicely 
enough. And it's a popular one (Thunderbird).

>  > If you silence the threads, you miss the issues.
>
> If you push them to other lists, so do you. I don't read gnu-emacs-help,
> for example.

So people would have to bring these issues separately on emacs-devel, or 
file proper bug reports. Oh horror.

>  > I'd like to urge everyone now to recall the "looking for the new
> maintainer" thread, and the low number of volunteers.
>
> Which is unrelated to this list's traffic, and more related to the
> vagueness of the job's description and the scarcity of suitable developers.

It's related to your response. I wouldn't take a maintainer position 
where everyone feels free to second-guess me on trivial decisions.