Reducing "unrelated" requests to jdk-dev

[Eirik Bjørsnøs]

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?

Eirik.

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