On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Ds Jstc <dsjstc_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> But I have one big problem that I can't resolve.
>
> It's this: the mailing list paradigm drives me insane.
>
> I want to search for solutions, complain about my favorite missing features,
> and reply to other people's problems when I've already solved them. But I
> can't seem to do that without subscribing to the mailing list. And my inbox
> is entirely full enough, thank you.
You don't have to use this mailing list. You can use forums such as
Stackoverflow.com. However, as mailing lists go, this is one of the
most helpful and useful ones I've seen. Because of that, you're
probably stuck with this email list.
I believe this can be seen via Stackoverflow. There are only about
5,300 tagged Subversion issues in Stackoverflow. Compare this with PHP
(50,700), Java (60,000), or Python (30,000+).
I use a Google GMail account for my mailing lists (instead of my work
email or my home email address). This has several nice features. For
example, it separates out my mailing lists from other email detritus
found at work and at home. Gmail also seems to be tuned for mailing
lists. You can easily setup tags for each mailing list, and the
conversations appear as threads which help you keep things together.
Gmail also hides the original question on replies, so you don't see
them.
But, the best reason is that with 7 Gigabytes of storage, I don't have
to delete any emails. After a couple of years, you have an archive of
easily searchable Subversion emails (better than the current web
archive they use).
So, sorry this email list for Subversion is the best support forum
around. But, if you create your own Gmail account just for the list,
and use the web browser interface, you'll find the list much more
manageable.
--
David Weintraub
qazwart_at_gmail.com
Received on 2010-07-29 22:24:42 CEST