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[77.12.39.85]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 189sm4779661wmc.7.2019.11.19.13.41.04 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:41:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:41:01 +0100 From: SZEDER =?utf-8?B?R8OhYm9y?= To: Johannes Schindelin Cc: Emily Shaffer , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Denton Liu Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MyFirstContribution: add avenues for getting help Message-ID: <20191119214101.GN23183@szeder.dev> References: <20191115230637.76877-1-emilyshaffer@google.com> <20191118214519.GH22855@google.com> <20191119184919.GM23183@szeder.dev> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 10:29:43PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi Gábor, > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2019, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 01:45:19PM -0800, Emily Shaffer wrote: > > > > > I don't mind the idea of pushing folks to ask on the mentoring list > > > first. It's pretty well attended already - just now I count 16 list > > > members, a pretty significant majority of which are project veterans. > > > I have no problem suggesting newbies ask their questions, which others > > > probably had and solved before them, in a space separate from the main > > > mailing list. > > > > > > Of course if you want to encourage newbies to ask in any of these > > > three venues, weighted equally, I can change the language. But > > > suggesting the main list as a last resort was intentional. > > > > git@vger is the ultimate source of all wisdom :) and it is openly > > accessible for anyone for writing, > > ... except people with an @outlook.com address (all of their emails will > bounce) and people who do not know how to suppress HTML in their emails > (which I believe constitutes the vast majority)... And I believe that that "vast majority" will never try to contribute to Git, and thus doesn't matter. > > reading, and searching. Therefore these three venues cannot be weighted > > equally, but git@vger should be the explicitly preferred venue. Only if > > the newbie has some other preferences should the other two be > > considered; e.g. if more interactive, chatty communication is preferred, > > then try #git-devel.