From: trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2009-06-25T00:08:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Time for a ruby-announce list?



On Jun 24, 9:30 am, Jörg W Mittag <JoergWMittag+Use...@GoogleMail.Com>
wrote:
> Trans wrote:
> > We are seeing a lot or release announcements among the regular posts
> > these days, taking up a larger and larger percentage of total posts.
> > Perhaps if we have a separate list for them then:
>
> We already have not one, but *two* such lists. What do you think a
> third one would accomplish that two can't?
>
> Also, the success hasn't exactly been overwhelming: the
> rubynet-announce list has had exactly 20 mails in over 6 years(!), and
> ruby-community-announcements had 28 mails in more than one year.
>
> [...]
>
> > 3) other people besides Ryan Davis would announce their projects ;-)
>
> 35% of the announcements on rubynet-annou...@lists.rubynet.org are
> from Daniel J Berg, 25% from Ryan Davis, 10% each from Anders
> Bengtsson and Michael Davis and 5% each from David Alan Black, Simon
> Strandgaard, Jeremy Hylton and Francis Hwang. So, around 70% of the
> announcements are by the same people who *already* announce on
> comp.lang.ruby. The numbers for ruby-community-announcements are
> similar: the majority of mails are release announcements for Prawn
> from Gregory Brown, S9 announcements from Gerald Bauer plus some stuff
> from John Mettraux, Mike Mondragon and Matt Todd, all of whom already
> announce on comp.lang.ruby, I believe.

As I stated earlier, this kind of thing cannot work without being an
official list. No one is going to pay any attention to a list that is
not an offical ruby-lang.org list.

T.