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<p>On 2025-03-29 07:28, Eirik Bjørsnøs wrote:</p>
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<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Could something be done to help people find a more
appropriate list before posting?</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This
list is for the discussion of general technical issues related
to the development of the current JDK main-line feature
release.</blockquote>
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<div>The second sentence is helpful, but maybe not super clear:</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Please
use a more narrowly-focused list (e.g., core-libs-dev or
hotspot-dev) if appropriate.</blockquote>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Thoughts?</div>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>/Magnus<br>
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<div>Eirik.</div>
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