Daniel Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Vladimir Prus wrote: >> >> Just today, somebody was not able to find a way to subscribe to Boost.Build >> mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I recall it's not the only >> domain-specific mailing list. There's boost-documentation, there's ml for >> Spirit, and, IIRC, for Boost.Python. I think it would be good to add >> information about additional list. >> >> I think that "index.html" will list "Domain-specific" under "Boost >> (Developers)" and "Boost Users", and mailing_lists.html will contain >> all further information. >> >> Is this good idea? If so, I'll go ahead and add Boost.Build ml and hopefully >> others add more.
It's a good idea to reference the other lists, but I don't love that indexing organization. I would prefer to see a single "mailing lists" link on the home page which points to the mailing_lists.html page. That would list every mailing list with a short description which could help people understand what they're getting into (i.e. volume, topic, required level of expertise, ...) > A general question: Is it really desirable to have separate mailing > lists? Maybe it's just me, but I prefer one mailing list for all > discussions. We had this discussion long ago. I was stumping for a single list, to keep the cross-pollination of ideas going. IMO we just have too much going on these days IMO to do it all on one list, though. > Of course there are discussions I don't follow, but sometimes, you > see things in an unrelated thread that can be used for the stuff you > are interested in. These synergy-effects are not available when the > lists are separated. You can almost get that by reading some of the lists through gmane (nntp) and taking a quick browse every now and then. > I don't really bother the higher volume. Well in that case you can just subscribe to all of them, no? > IMHO two lists should work: One for general discussion and one which > only has announcements for those people that are only interested in > new stable versions. In the discussion list, prefixes in the subject > [spirit], [lambda], [whatever] should work well and even without > them a good subject is all I need. What's the advantage to you over having 4 or 5 subscriptions? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
