Re: [mpg123-devel] [mpg123-users] New merged mailing list for mpg123 discussion

[Thomas O. <tho...@or...>]

Am Sun, 10 May 2020 23:07:01 +0200
schrieb Martin Guy <mar...@gm...>: 

> Developers if it regards people (potentially) modifying the code base,
> users for people using it […] but not expecting to have to dig into the
> source code.

Sure, but what's with discussion of possible changes in the code?
Developers might have an idea they like, but it would have consequences
for users that they did not think about. Users could jump in early in
the process. I think that synergy has value that for bigger projects is
overshadowed by the issue of high volume of posts. But then, really big
projects need further divisions. Try to get a discussion on LKML … or
anyone notice your patch proposal at all (I tried, with CC to the
maintainer of the portion of code I was patching …)!

But back to developer discussions: Frankly, this mostly takes place in
IRC (#mpg123 on freenode) or in my head. There are occasional
contributions from people that they share, again, often personally to
me. Some more complicated issues and patches get communicated to the
list.

The place for serious developer discussion about definite development
issues (bug or feature) is actually the bug tracker. We got already
several channels to choose from.

> I guess other developers using libmpg123 but not expecting to modify
> its internals are "users" in this case.

Yes. I do consider people building their applications using the library
users of the project.

I'm still open for the outcome of this attempted merge. And I hope you
have no hard feelings if it does go through. The current subscriber
score is this:

- mpg123-devel:  21 (-1)
- mpg123-users:  29 (-2)
- mpg123-discuss: 8 (+8)

Most people are still watching the game and stay on the old lists,
too. I am keeping this open till the release of mpg123-1.26.0 (so,
something like two weeks). The announcement of the release will be on
all lists in any case, along with the announcement of mailing list
future. If the count of mpg123-discuss is not at least on par with the
bigger of the other two (± 5, adjusting for inactive folks), I consider
the attempt failed and will remove it again. 


Alrighty then,

Thomas

PS: It's a tad ironic that this discussion about separation of
discussions is providing a peak of activity for both lists now, with
two people being involved;-)