Hi William, On 29 Jan., 06:31, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > Last year in January 2010, there were 1580 messages on sage-devel. > This year, in January 2011, there have so far been only 604 messages.
I wonder if that comes from the fact that there are so many (too many, I'd say) sage-related list. There exist: sage-algebra sage-combinat-devel sage-devel sage-flame sage-notebook sage-nt sage-solaris sage-support How many did I forgot? Hang on: I remember that recently a new support location was opened - but I don't remember where it was. Simply I don't see the point of having such a place in addition to sage- support, so, I won't go there. There is a large overlap of these lists. For example, Sage is a computer ALGEBRA project. Hence, the majority of development is expected to be related with algebra. Thus, why is there a separate list for algebra? And why is there, in addition to sage-algebra, also sage-nt? Personally, I find it frustrating that category/coercion stuff is expected to be discussed on sage-algebra (and then usually just between 2 or 3 people) even though that topic usually touches the main engine of Sage. And I could imagine that some people feel a similar frustration in their respective topic, thus posting less frequently, out of frustration. I don't think that any of these lists had a traffic that would justify splitting them up. I'd find it easier to follow two big lists than 8 small lists. Cheers, Simon -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
