On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Stefan Behnel <[email protected]> wrote: > Craig Citro, 18.11.2010 09:13: >> * Does github have any sort of mailing list support? I'd love to see >> cython-dev migrated > > -1 > > >> to something with better searchability, linking, archives, etc > > What's wrong with all the archives of the current mailing list? Doesn't at > least one of them suite your way of using a ML archive? Gmane alone has > three different web interfaces. > > And in what way is "linking" different from "posting a link" or "referring > to an archive post"? I never had any problem with either of those.
There's no canonical link for a message or a thread, most of the archives chop threads at month boundaries, and I, for one, don't like the treaded views they offer near as much. >> -- I don't know that there's any special link between >> google groups and code.google.com, so this is really orthogonal to the >> project hosting question. I know the decision to use codespeak was >> made as an explicit decision against google groups, but my >> understanding is that whatever objections there were are now gone. Is >> that still the case? > > From comparing the ML related comments on cython-dev and cython-users, I > got the impression that it wasn't that a good idea to have a mailing list > on google-groups. I remember reading things like "I thought top-posting was > the right thing to do on google-groups" more than once. An environment that > doesn't help people to do the right thing doesn't feel welcoming to me. And > I really hate the way google-groups presents archived threads. Makes them > totally hard to read. I find google groups easier to administer and use, but I consider most of these to be matters of taste and opinion (I prefer bottom posting as well, though not to the same extreme). So for now we have a compromise between our -users and -dev lists, and though we'd both like to move them to the same place (in opposite directions) it seems to be working fine. In particular, I don't think the mailing lists need to be tied to the other infrastructure (whereas having issue trackers and code review in the same place is really handy...) - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
