From: "Stephan Kämper" Date: 2002-01-23T20:14:13+09:00 Subject: Re: [POLL]: ruby-talk seperation Tobias DiPasquale wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am proposing a poll in which people will reply to this posting and list > the top five lists that they would like to see if a seperation of > ruby-talk should (would) occur. This will help get a better feel for > where people's interests lie, and also help to split the traffic up > better between the newly created lists. Please reply with your top five > lists, and any comments that you desire, as well. > > You can reply to this post on the mailing list, or to me personally, and > I will compile the results and report back to the mailing list in one > week's time. At such time, I will contact the maintainer of the ruby-talk > ML and see what can be done about implementing the new lists. > > Those people that already suggested new lists need not reply again, but > can if they want to. Participation is, of course, optional. > > Thanks in advance! > -- Hi Tobias & all, let me mention what I wouldn't like to see and why first... IMHO, 3 lists are really enough for this list/news group. The reason I think so is 'diversity': Sure, there are a lot of postings per day - and I'm really happy with this, because it reflects the interest people have in this great language. But we're not so many poeple posting here that a large number of 'sub groups' is justified - too many sub groups/lists might only lead to 'orphaned' groups. I'm not sure whether spinning off 'specialized' sub groups for XML, GUI or OS related topics is a Good Thing right now. Ruby is still young, a lot of things are still in the flow and if some are like me thry're interested in a lot of topics, without wanting to go too terribly deep into the details. I personally like the diversity in this news group, and wouldn't that much like to subscribe to 5 or 6 groups simply because organizing more groups is (to me, mentally) more effort than skipping some postings... So, what do I like? I think Rubyists can be divided in two main categories (which might well serve as appropriate categories for sub groups) 'users' (like me) programming in Ruby, having questions about the language, the Ruby Way of programming (idioms and the like), how to use/install libraries, etc. 'devlopers', well developing the interpreter, libraries and more (unlike me, but _much_ like Matz ;) ) Note what developer can be misleading in this context: I write Ruby programs (or scripts if you prefer that term) and thus am a Ruby developer. Others, like matz, write the interpreter and are ruby developers (note the lowercae 'r'). Most likely ruby developers are Ruby developers, too... That said, I vote for two groups: - ruby-dev : The interpreter/library... developers - ruby-talk : For anything 'Ruby' Happy rubying Stephan