[Caml-list] splitting ocaml-list

[Caml-list] splitting ocaml-list

[Miles Egan]

Would it make sense to split up caml-list into a few new lists?  A lot of other
language projects offer three lists, a devel list, an announce list, and a users
list.  For ocaml, this would be:

caml-announce:
    announcements of new versions of ocaml and ocaml-related packages
caml-devel:
    discussion of ocaml bugs and internals
caml-users:
    general questions about ocaml usage and problems

Such a division might make it easier for people to ask newbie questions without
troubling the core ocaml team.  On the other hand, caml-list is fairly low
volume, so it might not be worth it.

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Re: [Caml-list] splitting ocaml-list

[Antoine Marin]

Miles Egan a écrit :
> 
> Would it make sense to split up caml-list into a few new lists?  A lot of other
> language projects offer three lists, a devel list, an announce list, and a users
> list.  For ocaml, this would be:
> 
> caml-announce:
>     announcements of new versions of ocaml and ocaml-related packages
> caml-devel:
>     discussion of ocaml bugs and internals
> caml-users:
>     general questions about ocaml usage and problems
> 
> Such a division might make it easier for people to ask newbie questions without
> troubling the core ocaml team.

I don't think, just because usually they are included this way:

caml-announce is included in caml-users that is included in caml-devel

Developpers should know everything that is said on each list (anyway they can
filter e-mails).
It's the reverse way, core ocaml team won't trouble newbie with obscure
metaphysic thought ;)

regards,

Antoine
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Re: [Caml-list] splitting ocaml-list

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:02:05PM -0700, Miles Egan wrote:
> Such a division might make it easier for people to ask newbie questions without
> troubling the core ocaml team.  On the other hand, caml-list is fairly low
> volume, so it might not be worth it.

I think that it is the right topic division, but I also think that this
list is yet a low volume list, so we don't need such kind of splitting.
I follow (really "lurk" is a better verb :) this list from 1 year and I
really like the discussions about caml internals and also like
announces.

But, if we will reach a volume like hundreds mail a day ... go and split
the list, please! :-)

Cheers.

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