Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-15 Thread Michael McGrady
Mark R. Diggory wrote: Michael McGrady wrote: Commons is not a place for people uninterested in Java development. Commons is a common repository for code used in Java development. Maybe the math boys and girls are thinking of doing something like Struts only for math folks. If so, then jakart

Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-15 Thread Michael McGrady
Mark R. Diggory wrote: Well, once again, the users of [math] and any other Jakarta Commons components must be Java developers. It is our job, as API designers and documentation developers to make it as easy as possible for them; but we are not developing end user products here. Any specific c

Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-14 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Phil Steitz wrote: > Mark R. Diggory wrote: > > > > After a great deal of discussion, maybe this subject should be voted on > > to bring the subject to completion. Otherwise, it will just get more > > heated. > > We should not have to resort to a vote on this. I suggest that

Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-14 Thread Phil Steitz
Kim van der Linde wrote: Hi Mark, I agree with you. And I have played advocate of the devil here, as I noticed from the beginning on that this is a hard-core developers environment. But in daily life, I work in an environment were people are the real users of the products that are developed here. T

Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-14 Thread Phil Steitz
Mark R. Diggory wrote: This is the type of discussion I'm referring too. Here is a perfect example of why commons components would benefit from separate "users" lists. Users are not interested in the same discussion issues as developers, the commons users list is ill adapted to the cross pollin

Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-14 Thread Kim van der Linde
Hi Mark, I agree with you. And I have played advocate of the devil here, as I noticed from the beginning on that this is a hard-core developers environment. But in daily life, I work in an environment were people are the real users of the products that are developed here. They are not programmers

Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-14 Thread Al Chou
--- "Mark R. Diggory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the type of discussion I'm referring too. Here is a perfect > example of why commons components would benefit from separate "users" > lists. Users are not interested in the same discussion issues as > developers, the commons users list i

Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-14 Thread Mark R. Diggory
Again, an excellent example of my point, this is not very civil from a "User Support" standpoint and attitude such as this will only drive users away. Unfortunately, most of us developers are very stoic and abrupt, something that ultimately undermines any interaction with users who are not fell

Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-14 Thread Mark R. Diggory
This is the type of discussion I'm referring too. Here is a perfect example of why commons components would benefit from separate "users" lists. Users are not interested in the same discussion issues as developers, the commons users list is ill adapted to the cross pollination "developer" parad

Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-14 Thread Henri Yandell
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Michael McGrady wrote: > Kim van der Linde wrote: > > >--- Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>It seems that you are missing the single most > >>important facet of Jakarta Commons here - community. > >> > >> > > > > > > > >>Commons is one community, > >>

Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-14 Thread Michael McGrady
Kim van der Linde wrote: --- Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems that you are missing the single most important facet of Jakarta Commons here - community. Commons is one community, A community from whom? Whom are in it? Only hard-core developers? Or the developers and

Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-14 Thread Kim van der Linde
--- Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that you are missing the single most > important facet of Jakarta Commons here - community. > Commons is one community, A community from whom? Whom are in it? Only hard-core developers? Or the developers and users at large? Apparently, I

Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-14 Thread Martin Cooper
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 06:20:37 -0700 (PDT), Kim van der Linde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- "matthew.hawthorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kim van der Linde wrote: > > > I think I am a typical math only user and > > developer > > > and I just joined the e-mail lists. The last days, > > I

Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-14 Thread Michael McGrady
Kim van der Linde wrote: --- "matthew.hawthorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <> <>I think I am a typical math only user and developer and I just joined the e-mail lists. The last days, I seriously contemplated on leaving both lists because of the use amout of completly irrelevant bullshit that

Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-14 Thread Kim van der Linde
--- "matthew.hawthorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kim van der Linde wrote: > > I think I am a typical math only user and > developer > > and I just joined the e-mail lists. The last days, > I > > seriously contemplated on leaving both lists > because > > of the use amout of completly irrelevan

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2004-08-14 Thread J.Pietschmann
Kim van der Linde wrote: I think I am a typical math only user and developer and I just joined the e-mail lists. The last days, I seriously contemplated on leaving both lists because of the use amout of completly irrelevant bullshit that passes by every morning and during the day on my computer. I

Re: [all] Math needs a "user" & a "dev" email list.

2004-08-13 Thread Kim van der Linde
Hi All, I think I am a typical math only user and developer and I just joined the e-mail lists. The last days, I seriously contemplated on leaving both lists because of the use amout of completly irrelevant bullshit that passes by every morning and during the day on my computer. I have better thin