Hi, On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn <d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no> wrote: > +1 on scicomp.stackexchange.com > > For it to work, one would need to actively push users towards it though...so > it would require a very clear pronouncement. > > Matthew: I'm happy with the split we did with Cython. It leaves me free to > mostly ignore cython-users, and it saves users from thos 100+ post threads > about inner workings. (I've had Cython users tell me several times that it > is better that devs make Cython better than spend time helping newbies -- I > feel helping out newbies is something advanced users can do too).
Having heard from you and Fernando, I'm much more 50 - 50 than I was before. Although my experience is the same as TJ earlier - I don't filter my mail, I just skip the ones I don't want to read, often by subject line or the first few lines of the mail. > I don't agree with your implication that the organization of mailing lists > has much to do with governance. I think 'governance' would be a bad word for what I meant - more like 'tone'. I suppose they are strongly related but probably 'tone' comes first and then drives 'governance', and maybe the purpose of 'governance' is to preserve the 'tone' as people and circumstances change. > The mailing list split is a split of topics > of discussion, not of the subscribers; anyone is welcome to post on > cython-dev (e.g., ideas for new features or hashing out wanted semantics). Right. > However, a stackexchange-like solution may be a better fit than a users > list. The. ask.scipy beta wasn't used much but it wasn't really promoted and > users weren't pushed towards it. As a matter of interest - do y'all hang out much on stackexchange? I notice that I often go to stackexchange for a good answer, but it doesn't seem that good for - discussion. Or maybe it's just I'm not used to it. > One advantage is pooling topics together; many new users may be unsure > whether numpy or scipy or matplotlib or ipython or cython is the place to > ask. There are 'inter-disiplinery' questions; currently numpy-discussion > seems to catch some of that too, not just pure numpy. Yes, good point. See you, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
