Hi, Can tags be optional? The absence of tags is a signifier in itself.
I like module(package?) announcements. > barrier to entry In addition to the mailing list, slack & IRC, there are a lot of channels where new people go to ask Racket questions: Facebook Group ‘Racket’: https://www.facebook.com/groups/436305706723234/ Stack overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/racket & https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/racket?sort=unanswered Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Racket Github issues: https://github.com/racket/racket/issues I’d encourage Racketeers to pitch in if they see someone asking for help in any of these places. For github, I added a wiki page: https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/How-to-get-help Kind regards Stephen On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 7:56 PM Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote: > > David Storrs wrote on 1/16/19 2:06 PM: > > email list tagging. > > Just to note one of the effects of such tagging, when considering > pros&cons: it's a barrier to entry, for some people who might contribute. > > Imagine someone who just discovered the list and wants to post, and then > they see apparent extra list-specific conventions, and they don't know > what that's about, and they might be afraid of doing it wrong, and they > might not want to stop and learn those conventions. (Not everyone is > like this, but many are.) > > > Incidentally, is it okay to post module announcements? > > IMHO, announcements of new packages on "racket-users" are great! > > And also announcements of noteworthy new versions of packages previously > announced (e.g., you added major new functionality since last > announced), or maybe it's simply been a long time since a noteworthy > packages was last mentioned on the list. > > Also, I suggest that encouragement of posting an announcement to > "racket-users" should always be paired with encouragement to package > open source code as in "https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/";. And vice > versa. (Not to create a barrier here that discourages sharing at all, > but merely to give a little nudge, for those who are willing to do the > extra work to use the package system.) > > (BTW, one reason to have package announcements be done manually, rather > than automatically, is that manually means the package author is then > expecting possible responses on the email list, and everyone on the list > knows the person is probably at least briefly checking that thread on > the list. It's also more personalized, which seems good for the > community.) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ---- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
