Appetite for Gemini users mailing list?

[Solderpunk]

On Mon Nov 30, 2020 at 10:06 AM CET, Caolan McMahon wrote:

> > We have the [ANN] subject tag for that I think. But that is currently used
> > for both new software and new capsules. Maybe it would be an improvement to
> > differentiate these two.
>
> Sure, I'd be fine with filtering on the [ANN] tag, the filter might miss
> some discussion of interesting use cases, but it would catch 80% of what
> I'm interested in.
>
> What do you think about guidance on what's considered on-topic for the
> list? And perhaps guidance on when to use subject tags? This could be a
> couple of sentences in the Mailman page 'about' section

I am actually extremely open to the idea of splitting the list into
several separate lists, as commonly seen in large software projects like
operating systems.  Something like:

* gemini-users: for everyday Gemini users without any special interest
  in the technical side of things.  Announcements of new capsules,
  projects like aggregators and "gemrings", authorship conventions,
  advocacy/outreach, etc.  Maybe announcements of initial releases of
  new user-oriented software.  Probably the busiest list?
* gemini-dev: for people authoring Gemini software.  Discussion of
  technical best practices, etc.
* gemini-admin: for people running Gemini servers.  Do we actually need
  this?  Probably low traffic, for sharing e.g. IP addresses of
  misbehaving clients.
* gemini-spec: for spec finalisation.  Ideally low traffic, limited
  membership, guaranteed in advance to be permanently set read-only
  within a few months of creation.
* gemini-announce: very low traffic list only I can post to with
  important announcements.

How do people feel about this?  I don't know how the list hosts feel so
can't guarantee this is possible, but I'm very happy to make enquires if
there's broad support for this.  I for one think it's a good idea.  I
know multiple people who have unsubscribed from this list after heavy
early involvement because it's just become too much to follow.

Cheers,
Solderpunk