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Re: Suggestion: New Guile mailing list


Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes:

> People don't like when we discuss Guile development internally.
> 
> But people don't like when we discuss on the guile list either,
> because such discussions can generate a lot of traffic.
> 
> What about creating a new public list `guile-devel'?

Ouch.  You do realize that (almost) everyone here will just migrate to
guile-devel, don't you?

I personally find all the discussions here very enlightening, so if
you feel discouraged to discuss devel matters here, than I urge you
not to feel this way.

A separate list to carry diffs to the top-level NEWS file, called
guile-announce or guile-changes or something, would probably make
sense, for those who find the noise here unbearable.

Another solution is to do what the Gnome folks did - they have a
closed (but archived) devel list called gnome-hackers.  The "archived"
part is critical here.  Maybe even better thing to do is to allow
read-only subscription to everyone and to allow posting for people
with CVS write access.  (I know zilch about mailing list software, so
perhaps such a thing is unfeasible.  I seem to remember some comments
as to how Majordomo is a complete and utter bitch to modify.
Whatever...).  You see, most of the problem of the previous private
discussions among Guile developers (in my view, at least), was not
that random people couldn't have input, but because the discussions
were *private*.

> /mdj

regards,
mike.