On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:39:48PM -0800, Jonathan Leffler wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:20:20 -0800, Darren Duncan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First of all, thanks to those of you who replied to my question. Very > > helpful. > > > > At 3:18 PM +0000 11/23/04, Tim Bunce wrote: > > >You've got a lot of good advice from others. I'll just add that > > >dbi-users would have been a more appropriate forum for this :) > > > > Sorry. > > I don't think it was an egregious error - if an error at all. It was > a borderline case. I can see Tim's point; I can see yours. > > > At the time, I thought dbi-dev was more appropriate [...] > > You thought about - that's half the battle. There was a separate > egregious abuse of dbi-dev by someone who had no reason to use it. > Don't sweat it.
Exactly. > > How does one know where to draw the line between what is relevant for > > dbi-dev and what isn't? > > > > The official description of dbi-dev gives an approximate idea: > > > > Discussions among DBI/DBD implementors. You probably don't > > need to be on this list unless you are writing C code to interface > > Perl to some database. This list is for implementors only. > > > > However, a lot of people contribute to the development of DBI/DBD > > besides those that own each module, and some modules have no C > > component. Is this list strictly for those who have their own DBD > > modules that they own? Or for those that provide assistence also? > > If you're developing modules that work with DBI, it is not always > unreasonable to ask questions here rather than in dbi-users, though > many of the questions could also be asked on dbi-users and would be > appropriate there. Yeap. Here's a simple test: If the answer to the main question is likely to be of interest to dbi-users then that's a good place to ask it. > > Perhaps I will simply "play it safe" from now on and post all > > DBI-related discussions to other lists, such as poop-group and > > dbi-users. Simply post to the one list you think is most appropriate for that specific question. (Your notion of "most appropriate" will naturally evolve over time.) If you don't get useful answers then try posting to another list (perhaps after improving the question based on whatever feedback you did get from the first list). > I'd be surprised if any > DBD developers were not also subscribed to dbi-users. They ought to be. It's not very high volume. Tim.
