Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?)

2004-07-18 Thread Brian McCallister
This discussion, and a recent comment about the new [EMAIL PROTECTED] have had me thinking about ASF infrastructure, etc. The question was asked "why start discussion about continuations in the JVM on a codehaus list when most of the people initially involved are ASF'ers, etc?" The answer was

RE: Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?)

2004-07-18 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> the list was made the moment it was needed. It > *could* be created the moment it was needed. It would be nice if we had such a mechanism. At the moment, list creation is a long list of steps that involves 3 servers, each with different access rights. > I suspect that if 3 ASF'ers want to disc

Re: Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?)

2004-07-19 Thread Brian McCallister
Happily! Let me know what is done now, and I'll see if I can make it more easily automated. -Brian On Jul 18, 2004, at 5:12 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: the list was made the moment it was needed. It *could* be created the moment it was needed. It would be nice if we had such a mechanism. At the m

Re: Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?)

2004-07-21 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Sunday, July 18, 2004 4:20 PM -0400 Brian McCallister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suspect that if 3 ASF'ers want to discuss a topic via email, and think a mailing list would help, there should be a mechanism to simply have it created, bang. Just my 2 cents =) Mailing lists without PMC overs

Re: Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?)

2004-07-21 Thread Adam R. B. Jack
From: "Justin Erenkrantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 12:03 PM Subject: Re: Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?) > --On Sunday, July 18, 2004 4:20 PM -0400 Brian McCallister > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I suspec

Re: Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?)

2004-07-21 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Wednesday, July 21, 2004 12:54 PM -0600 "Adam R. B. Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1) I might've missed a better place to post, I don't think so. I thought about it for a while, and this was the best I came up with. So if you know of one, then maybe I'm simply clueless, not lazy. Otherwise

Re: Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?)

2004-07-21 Thread Henri Yandell
Do you have the same feelings for [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems to me that members@ is akin to a community-dev list, while community@ is akin to a community-users list. Any reason to keep members@ should exist for [EMAIL PROTECTED] I agree that MS Patent stuff is boring and unnecessary on a communi

Re: Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?)

2004-07-21 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Wednesday, July 21, 2004 6:22 PM -0400 Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you have the same feelings for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes and no. Yes, in the sense that I do wish the S/N ratio on members@ were better (it has gotten better as of late). But, it also exists as a communication

Re: Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?)

2004-07-21 Thread Adam R. B. Jack
> > Language-oriented TLPs have repeatedly demonstrated themselves to be poor > overseers of code. The 'balancing of the ASF' brings back horrors of the > reorg@ list which was another of those misguided lists... -- justin > If a general cross-project XML list is useful, why not one for language

Re: Inexpensive Lists (was: Re: Python anybody?)

2004-07-22 Thread Henri Yandell
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > --On Wednesday, July 21, 2004 6:22 PM -0400 Henri Yandell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > list. Go read groklaw. However, discussions on whether a python community > > should exist seem to be perfectly designed for the community list (unless > >