From: Jim Freeze Date: 2002-10-02T05:30:35+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby-talk separation, part II On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:29:33AM +0900, Sean Chittenden wrote: > FreeBSD's got a decent setup. Few additions to the list here: > > > Here are just a few suggestions of mail lists > > (Most of these are not original, but come from other > > groups I have seen, eg, FreeBSD) > > > > cvs Changes made to the source tree > > ruby-advocacy Ruby Evangelism > > ruby-announce Important events and project milestones > > ruby-arch Architecture and design discussions > > ruby-bugs Bug reports > ^^^^^^^^^ > It'd be nice if this were a subscribable list w/ archives, I'm sure > that's where I would've found a bit about mark/sweep in the past. :) > > > ruby-chat Non-technical items related to the Ruby community > > ruby-config Development of Ruby installation and configuration tools > > ruby-core Discussion concerning RCR's and patches for Ruby > > ruby-docs Discussion concerning Ruby and library documentation > > ruby-jobs Ruby employment and consulting opportunities > > ruby-newbies New Ruby users activities and discussions > > ruby-questions User questions and technical support > > ruby-security Security issues > > ruby-test Where to send your test messages instead of one of the actual lists > > ruby-www Issues for using Ruby with http servers > > Few more to suggest: > > ruby-performance > ruby-xml > ruby-database > ruby-gui > ruby-extending > ruby-embedding > Those are good additions. We may however want to consolidate and keep the list count under 30. :) > I know this'd spread things thin... but would that necessarily be a > bad thing? I'm sure many people would be on all of the lists, myself > included, but the important thing would be that they could prioritize > their time accordingly. -sc > The thinner the better. That gives me the ability to subscribe and un-subscribe as my interests change and keep my inbox below 200 emails a day. > PS If in one weeks time I haven't heard of any objections, I will > wholesale create all of these lists above plus any other suggested > lists and toss them on rubynet.org along with an updated site and > links pointing to all of the lists, descriptions of the lists, and > archives. Searchable archives I'll be able to have up in a week or so > after that. Personally, I would be very hesitant to subscribe to a non ruby-lang authorized list. I would much rather see this driven by ruby-lang. I feel the longevity would be more certain and searching/archiving would be more consistent. > -- > Sean Chittenden -- Jim Freeze ---------- Programming Ruby def initialize; fun; end A language with class