[Development] ML for QtWebEngine

Milian Wolff mail at milianw.de
Tue Oct 15 17:38:14 CEST 2013


On Tuesday 15 October 2013 17:27:05 Zeno Albisser wrote:
> Once again from the correct address.
> 
> On Oct 15, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Matt Broadstone <mbroadst at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not that I am really interested in debating such a decision, but I'm not
> > quite sure I see the noise you guys are referring to. I've been signed up
> > to the webkit-qt ML for some time and it's basically just a spam service
> > for status meeting bot messages (which at this point conveys very little
> > information). Is there a secret place where a bunch of emails regarding
> > qt webkit and webegine are ending up? Barring the existence of that, why
> > not just keep the discussions on this list and keep the whole community
> > involved until such a day arises that it really does become too much to
> > handle here? I, for one, support a path forward where I don't have to
> > sign up for another ML, and make yet another filter for my inbox ;)
> You might understand, that many people feel quite reluctant to send an email
> to a list that goes to hundreds of people instead of the relatively small
> amount of people that actually has a real interest in the project. The
> threshold for asking a question or sharing some feedback is higher. So
> instead of sending a mail, a lot of these discussions are currently just
> happening in our irc channel where people cannot easily read up on a
> discussion at all. - I don't think that's something you would be arguing
> for in favor. You used to be in #qtwebengine yourself as well some time
> ago. That is the "secret place" where the information is currently going.
> Also, if you consider the current webkit-qt ML spam, then you would
> probably not want that on the dev ML either.
> 
> But it does not make sense to reason about traffic on qtwebkit. These are
> separate projects and we do obviously not discuss qtwebengine on the
> qtwebkit mailing list. Because there you would not expect it for sure.

I aggree with what Zeno said. I just asked for the ML on IRC b/c I wanted to 
start a discussion to a QtWebEngine specific feature. Discussing that on 
QtWebKit's ML is just unrelated imo.

Bye
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Milian Wolff
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