...In the past couple of years we've seen several sub-projects pop-up and subsequently fizzle out (maybe due to Parrot slow progress or maybe due to lack of critical mass).
I propose creating 'parrot-compilers' as a general purpose list for any and all language development
So I'll be one of the few nay-sayers. I'm not definitely against it, but here are two counter-arguments:
1) It's likely that we've seen very little traffic (at least recently) about language development because either as you said Parrot isn't quite ready, or because of lack of interest. If so, a new list won't help.
2) Forking a list almost always leads to an increase of messages of the form "you should be asking this on the other list...", and/or of cross-posting, neither of which is very interesting to deal with. I'm of the opinion that unless traffic is unmanageable, fewer lists is better. So I think a fair question to ask is: How many people currently subscribed to this list would not subscribe to both? For those who subscribe to both, splitting wouldn't be an improvement.
I doubt that the name of the current list is actually a big problem, because no matter what the name is, you'll find out about the list by reading a blurb about it somewhere, which will explain why it's named this way. Those who are off-put because they hate Perl are going to probably not like the content of the discussion either, because it will constantly come up.
Again, I'm not dead-set against it--I just don't think it would improve anything.
JEff
