Reducing "unrelated" requests to jdk-dev

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2025-03-29 07:28, Eirik Bjørsnøs wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> A good chunk of messages on this list are from newly signed up, 
> non-author/committers posting questions/feature requests which then 
> needs fielding to more appropriate lists.
>
> While there is nothing particularly harmful to this situation, it does 
> introduce a bit of overhead for the poster, for the people doing the 
> fielding and for all other subscribers to the list.
>
> Could something be done to help people find a more appropriate list 
> before posting?
>
> The Mailman about page [1] initial paragraph is very inclusive, seems 
> to invite any "technical" question and says nothing about 
> process-related communications, like voting for new committers/reviewers.
>
>     This list is for the discussion of general technical issues
>     related to the development of the current JDK main-line feature
>     release.
>
>
> The second sentence is helpful, but maybe not super clear:
>
>     Please use a more narrowly-focused list (e.g., core-libs-dev or
>     hotspot-dev) if appropriate.
>
> Maybe some tweaks to these sentences could make it more clear what 
> this list is about and how to find a better list to ask questions.
>
> Thoughts?

That sounds like a good idea. The text should make it clear thatthis 
list discusses broad or project-wide technical issues for the JDK 
development, and that more specific lists should be used, if possible. 
It would not hurt to put in some extra wording about how this is not a 
general Java development list.

It could perhaps also help if first-time posters were checked by a 
moderator, but repeated posters and long-term list members could be 
whitelisted to bypass moderation. I'm not sure if anyone is willing to 
take on such a job, though.

/Magnus



>
> Eirik.
>
> [1] https://mail.openjdk.org/mailman/listinfo/jdk-dev
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