I would be on both lists

Sometimes I enjoy the chatter and sometimes I press delete





On Wednesday, April 8, 2015, Martin Steigerwald <martin@???> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, 8. April 2015, 08:09:14 schrieb Robert Storey:
> > > Good point. But I thought the reason for the suggestion was because
> > > of
> > > the amount of fairly useless chatter on this list that the devs have
> > > to
> >
> > wade
> >
> > > through. (Honestly, it annoys me too.) If there is a -dev list, I
> > > would
> > sign up
> >
> > > to see what's happening but it's unlikely I would participate because
> > > I'm not really qualified to do so.
> >
> > All good points. Just want to add though that probably one of the causes
> > of all the idle chatter is that we in the audience don't yet have
> > Devuan in our hot little hands, so we have no technical questions, no
> > bug reports, etc. All we can do for entertainment chat about what
> > Richard Stallman thinks of systemd, suggest that Pottering is evil, and
> > enquire about when Devuan-alpha will be released. I try to avoid those
> > silly discussions, but have occasionally broken down and participated.
> >
> > Once we have the alpha in our hot little hands, we can begin to discuss
> > the real technology, and stop wasting developers' time with trivia. And
> > I may finally start my long-awaited project to help writing the
> > documentation.
>
> Seriously?
>
> Then I´d suggest creating a "I am bored and want to talk about trivia"
> kind of mailinglist. Or a course in meditation to be able to deal with
> some silence in between.
>
> I still hardly read the list due for the reasons I already explained which
> are similar reasons why I unsubscribed debian-user: The noise to useful
> content ratio is so high that I feel it to be like a waste of time to try
> to find the interesting messages in between in most threads.
>
> So for now, I just check, is it Jude posting vdev news, read that, and,
> honestly mostly forget about the rest. I can deal with it like that, my
> mail program can as well, but this way I may miss some of the mails that
> have useful content.
>
> Heck, I don´t even expect every mail to be useful for me. But a bit better
> ratio, that would be good. So please, if you just post here out of
> boredom:
>
> Stop!
>
> And use your boredom as a chance for personal development.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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