On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > On 15/03/2011 20:01, Ben Bangert wrote: >> >> Here's a quick way to know which one to post to: >> pylons-devel >> - Discussion about development of pylons project libraries such as >> pylons/pyramid/etc. >> >> pylons-discuss >> - General discussion about best practices of development, asking for help, >> etc. > > How about just merging the lists? > > Is there really so much volume as to justify two lists? > Having a -devel and -discuss list always feels like elitism to me, in that > the people who can actually help hang out on -devel, and the people who need > it on -discuss :-S
That sounds more like a prejudice than anything that's happening on the lists. It happens on lists that have hundreds of messages a day like Debian, but those groups also have more developers so some of them remain on the user list. The two lists are meant to be a convenience for users, so that those who don't care about minor/theoretical development discussions and trivial "This page on the website doesn't work" or "You forgot to change the version number in this place" can skip it. All the developers are on the -discuss list and answer questions there. But sometimes when I have too much mail, I don't read messages based on their subject lines. That would happen with either one list or two. We did take usage questions on -devel in the alpha days of Pyramid, to prevent Pyramid questions from confusing Pylons users. That's where all the confusion between the lists came from. That's over now. -- Mike Orr <sluggos...@gmail.com> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel?hl=en.
