2008/12/20 Jon Hancock <[email protected]>:
>
> I haven't seen any problems with the google groups.  Can someone
> explain why this fragmentation is necessary?  Sounds like I'm going to
> have to have yet another place to look for message traffic.

"Some like it heavy"

There may be a reason that if merbherb is about "Merb, DM and related
technologies", there is no currently a mailing list dedicated to the
whole stack. And nobody can define what the stack is, because some use
DataMapper with MooTools and some use jQuery with Sequel. Also, you
can meet quite a few of active Merb and DM contributors on both lists
:)

But it is a question of branding. If guys are going to position their
forum as "alternative technologies forum", this sounds scary.
Alternative to what? Ruby already has 10 frameworks of all sizes, with
completely different ideas behind them (compare Waves to Rails to
Mack).

And of course as we know from recent FUD patrol report there is only
one web framework in Ruby that does not suck yet undervalued by people
greatly (I hope the weather is ok in London and FUD patrol is finally
happy), I think Ruby goes into 2009 as a language where web developers
have *a lot* of options to choose from already. Especially in testing
tools space. It no longer looks like an infant in this regard.

A community of/for people who use all sorts of Ruby tools for web
development sounds like an interesting idea, so maybe merbherb should
be headed that way. But this name, you know... it is slightly biased
towards one particular framework ;)
--
MK

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