Re: [DISCUSSION] Growing the Git community

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

I think it makes sense to stay closed for now. One of the reasons to
have a separate group is to make it less daunting to post to. Having a
public archive may work against that.

Yup.  For the same reason, I presume that the list members are not
disclosed to the public.  Or perhaps even to the list members?  It
might be nice to see who are participating as mentors, though.

As long as it is easy to point an already-asked-and-answered topic
to a new mentee, I think that is a sensible thing to do.  We would
find it to be inconvenient that we cannot use such an old exchange
to non-list members, though.

quoted

 - Post: Group members only. (My thinking is that once you're asking for
   someone's time and effort to help mentor you, you can volunteer the
   time and effort needed to push the join button and optionally filter
   your inbox ;) )

It also cuts down on spam (I moderate the git-security google group, and
the spam-blocking is far from perfect).

I noticed that, too.  Interestingly, GMail catches these spam that
come via the group just fine, so the filter over there may probably
be set to be more generous.