On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Morgan Collett writes: > >> We didn't get to discuss this activity developers' mailing list >> at the Sugar meetings. However I've had no negative feedback. >> If anyone is opposed to this list, please speak up quickly and >> loudly. Otherwise I will get it created in the next week, >> publicize it and invite all known activity developers whose email >> addresses I can track down to subscribe. > > Well I don't want to be all that negative because it isn't my > server and I'm not joining the list, so I have little reason to > care. If you're looking for reasons why the list isn't useful > though, sure: > > This will eventually, if not immediately, be a dead list. > > Few people want to work on all activities. Activities often > do not share much in common. For developer D1 who likes to > hack on activity A1, emails about activity A2 are noise.
Not sure about that... I propose that many activity developers would love to help casually with other activities, and that the lack of large-group collaboration on development of many activities could be cured by having a tangible activity developers' group. I've done some thinking about this (w.r.t. activities + git repositories) at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_co-op > > Generally, the expertise will be elsewhere. If I need to discuss > programming the camera, where does it make sense for me to go? > Certainly an activity mailing list is not the place. > I could see discussing camera activity development (pygame/camera) on an activity devel list. Brian > If the list were moderated, to be used ONLY for announcements > of things that break the API/ABI, then there could be some value. > In that case, you'd need to split up Python and non-Python. > Like this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > There could also be a list to announce new activities. > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
