On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 06:25:49PM +0200, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
>
> +1. I'd like to follow GHC development discussions, but getting all the
> commits is too much.

I'm surprised by this, FWIW. I think skimming the commits is a good way
to get an idea of what's going on,

Indeed, it can be. But I can't keep up with the huge number of commits everyday, and I'm not interested in the large majority of them.

while discussions between developers
tend to be focussed on particular obscure points (e.g. discussing
correctness of a murky corner in the intersection between 2 new type
system extensions, or discussing the way PIC is handled on OSX/PowerPC)
which I wouldn't have thought were of much interest to any party not
involved in the discussion and familiar with the details.

I find these things (both examples, actually) more interesting. I'm more likely to follow such threads than I am to skim the commits.

Anyway, I'm not really too fussed about what mailing lists we have. I'll
just subscribe to them all anyway :-)

I'm not too fussed about it, either, but I wouldn't mind a restructuring. I might even subscribe to them all as well, but then it will be easier to follow the commits at a different pace from the rest (without having to create a new filter, which I've been so far too lazy to do).