It DOES makes a great deal of sense to move the abcusers list over to SourceForge. It unifies the discussion forum with a large part of the abc software development, and that seems like a good thing indeed.
However, I could see that non-open-source developers might feel that this puts them in an odd place. Would it? The abc-discuss list, as part of the abc Project, is itself pretty quiet but has essentially the same focus as this list, albeit framed in the specific context of the abc Project software development. https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/abc-discuss or http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=abc-discuss In fact, the last message posted to it, back in January, was from someone trying to write a parser in JavaCC for ABC 2.0, based on Henrik Norbeck"s BNF spec for ABC 2.0! Should abc-discuss itself incorporate the abcusers membership or should a separate abcusers list, with a scope broader than the nominal mission of abc-discuss, be created along side it? That is, is there a problem with broadening the scope of abc-discuss to include the wider range of topics (including abcPlus software, non-open-source software, musicxml, and announcements for software which are not strictly abc programs)? If either of the above are thought to be a good ideas, it could just be a consensus move for everyone on this list to subscribe to the other at SourceForge and, when it appears that the main players have migrated, call for a mass unsubscribe from abcusers. It does appear that we would all individually have to register with SourceForge in order to subscribe, so that might be a minor obstacle. [Luckily, I managed to remember my SourceForge login from several years ago and was able to subscribe to abc-discuss pretty easily.] If we do decide to jump ship from abcusers, we will need to have Toby kill off the subscription page for this list and add links to the new subscription page. Else, the old list will get newbies signing up to the "wrong" list. Just my 2p. on 9/15/04 10:07 AM, Christian M. Cepel wrote: > I might suggest that we employ a SourceForge list and migrate to that. > > SourceForge mailing lists are run using MailMan, one of the best most > comprehensive Mailing list packages out there. -- Tom Keays / [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
