I think the concern is more so that the content (mathematical algorithms) is outside the scope of interest of the Commons in general, while the discussions concerning package design are interesting to commons in general. This is much in the same way that the Http protocol discussions of HttpClient were too subject specific to be of interest of Commons and thus a new list was spawned for that subject matter.

"Commons Math Developers" would be a list where discussion about internal algorithm issues can be discussed without the huge amounts of email we generate in the process getting dumped into the commons developer list and requiring filtering by everyone else.

Of course we would promote that many Commons Developers actually join both lists and it still would be highly promoted that issues concerning the interaction of math with other Commons components be discussed on the Commons Developer list directly.

Its a tough call, I'm not quite convinced theres enough [math] activity yet (even though I opened up the discussion). I fact, there was a long period in the fall where we didn't open any new discussions about math.

-Mark

John Keyes wrote:

Is the goal to reduce the traffic on commons-dev?
Are mail filters not sufficient?

On a general note, a policy should be in place stating
that if a commons project gets its own dev mailing list
a PMC member MUST be subscribed to it.

-John K

On 8 Nov 2003, at 18:57, David Graham wrote:

+1

David

--- "Mark R. Diggory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I know from positions taken by Craig and others there is some interest
in seeing some of the discussion in the math project get moved off to
another list. I know that sometimes the lengthy discussions we have
about what must appear to some to be like "String Theory", just PLAIN
OUT THERE... ;)

If its really in the publics interest, I'd be willing to propose
possibly starting a separate math developers list.  Let me know if
theres really a consensus of opinion on this.

-Mark

--
Mark Diggory
Software Developer
Harvard MIT Data Center
http://osprey.hmdc.harvard.edu

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