I'm a newbie and would like to see a seperat group for PS. I have an outstanding question that I would re-post in hopes of an answer by someone that is a PS guru. Frank
On Jun 16, 9:55 am, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has my +1 vote > > On Jun 14, 2008, at 11:51 AM, T.J. Crowder wrote: > > > > > Hi folks, > > > What say we create a new group to replace this one, perhaps called > > "Prototype Scriptaculous Users"? I have four reasons for suggesting > > this: > > > 1. Prototype and Scriptaculous have grown far beyond their Ruby-on- > > Rails spinoff status, and I'll even venture to say (speaking off the > > top of my head, based on no data or research whatsoever) that most > > users of Prototype and Scriptaculous don't use Ruby or Rails. > > > 2. People keep posting Ruby questions to the group; hopefully taking > > "ruby" out of the name will minimize that. > > > 3. People searching for Prototype help will probably be more likely to > > find the group (although I don't think it's currently a massive > > problem; I was pretty unusure when I first found it, though). > > > 4. We can turn on new member post moderation and stop the spam; we can > > limit page posting to managers only (being fairly liberal with who we > > add as managers). > > > Regarding #4: Moderating posts from new members is a PITA, but I > > think there are enough of us who are active enough -- kangax, Fred P., > > JDD, Christophe, RobG, Walter D., and lately myself -- that if we make > > all of us managers, new messages will get approved pretty quickly. > > > Just to reserve the name (don't ask me why), I've created the group > > but completely locked it down until/unless we decide to use it. If > > so, I'll open it up and add people as managers, and if someone more > > appropriate would like to take ownership of the group, I'll happily > > set them up. > > > Thoughts? > > -- > > T.J. Crowder > > tj / crowder software / com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
