Re: Creating gcc-newbies mailing list

["Andrew Pinski" <pinskia at gmail dot com>]

On 7/26/07, Diego Novillo <dnovillo@google.com> wrote:
> I would like to propose the creation a new mailing list:
> gcc-newbies@gcc.gnu.org.
>
> The purpose of this list is to attract and help new GCC developers who
> might feel lost and intimidated by the more arcane traffic at gcc and
> gcc-patches.  In this list, no question regarding GCC development should
> be considered offtopic nor treated with "RTFM" responses.

I think this is the wrong aproach.  I have not seen any  "RTFM"
response for questions of developing of GCC on the gcc@ list.  I think
it is wrong to seerate newbies questions from normal development
questions because some of other developers might not want to join that
list just to answer questions and then learn that a question was being
discussed on that list already.

Also I think it was wrong to ask first on the overseers mailing list
to create this list before discussing the pros/cons about the list.

> Or maybe this is not a good idea, but I have certainly seen some folks
> that complain about our less than friendly practices.

Most of those are due to offtopic questions in the first place.  If
you look at the recent thread about libelf, well that was offtopic but
it became unfriendly really after a person continued the thread after
being asked once nicely to take the thread to the libelf mailing
lists.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski