Reappropriating Squeak Dev :)

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Jul 19 16:40:39 UTC 2005


this is ok for me.
I just wanted to raise the discussion because as there are too much  
mailing-lists is dangerous.

Stef

On 19 juil. 05, at 18:04, Doug Way wrote:

>
> I think I disagree.  Squeak-dev is still getting between 10 and 50
> messages posted every day, so I don't think it looks like a dead  
> list to
> the casual observer.
>
> The individual lists are very convenient for getting deeper into a
> subject without bothering everyone on squeak-dev, and it's easier to
> follow a few targetted lists.
>
> I see your point that we don't want to keep all discussion  
> separated...
> list maintainers/team leaders should periodically post to squeak-dev
> with more important announcements or summaries of what's going on, and
> have an occasional discussion on squeak-dev.  And also point out the
> sub-list to everyone, so that interested people can join the sub-list.
>
> By the way, the new ezmlm browsing interface for the team mailing list
> archives is much nicer than it used to be.  It's now pretty  
> pleasant to
> poke around the various lists and see which ones are active... (you'll
> see that some are quite active: packages, website, janitors,
> box-admins).  Check out the team lists at:
>
> http://box2.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-browse
>
> - Doug
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:32:37 +0200, "stéphane ducasse"
> <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> said:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I think that with all the different mailing-lists around we are
>> losing the great communication of the old Squeak-Dev
>> mailing-list. I want to learn from other people: even if I do not
>> understand anything, it happens to me to read
>> the VM mails, same for package, v3.9, janitors.....
>> I prefer to have a mailing-list with 40 mails per day than 4 with  
>> 10 :)
>>
>> This is fun because I redirect all the mailing-list into the same
>> folder :) squeak-dev so this is a sign.
>> So do I am the only one thinking that with all the mailing-list
>> around we are missing a great opportunity to
>> learn, share, show that we are active?
>>
>> So may be we should change and kill some of the mailing-lists and
>> make Squeak-dev a place to communicate.
>>
>> Stef
>>
>>
>>   "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you
>>   do different? ...  especially if,  by doing something different,
>>   today might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes
>>
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