On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:29 AM, James A. Bednar <jbed...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > | Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:32:22 -0700 > | From: Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> > | > | On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > | > | > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 17:17, Travis Oliphant <teoliph...@gmail.com> > wrote: > | > > | > > Hey all, > | > > > | > > What is the thought about having two separate NumPy lists (one > | > > for development discussions and one for user discussions)? > | > > | > We've resisted it for years. I don't think the split has done > | > scipy much good. But that may just be my perspective because I'm > | > subscribed to both and filter them both to the same folder. > | > | Me too. I don't think there is so much traffic that a distinction > | needs to be made. > > I'm subscribed to the numpy digest, and I have 8 digest emails from > yesterday (27 January), i.e. one single day, sitting in my inbox. > These 8 digests represent who knows how many separate emails. If that > is not heavy traffic, I really wouldn't know what is! > > As someone who uses numpy heavily (I manage a large numpy-based > software project) but is not a numpy developer, I would very much > appreciate having a separate user list. I can't bring myself to > unsubscribe from the current list, for fear of not noticing some > important new features, related packages, or serious issues, but > sorting out those things from the rest of the posts does take > significant work. None of my actual developers subscribe any more, as > they found the volume of posts overwhelming, so I've sacrificed myself > so that I can try to notice anything important and bring it to their > attention. Anything that would help that would be greatly > appreciated!
Maybe a digest is not the best way to screen the messages. In threaded view (in gmail reader or Thunderbird) I have 2 to 5 threads a day in the last half month from the numpy mailing list, so I find it easy to screen threads. I think quite a bit of user traffic for numpy has moved to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/numpy and to me it looks like the mailing list gets mostly the "heavier" questions. Josef > > Jim > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion