On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 23:06:00 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 18:55:33 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Along those lines, I really think dmd-beta should me moved to
the
newsgroups. Granted, I am biased since I hate mailing lists.
But moving
it to NG means:
- Consistency with the rest of the D traffic.
- Easier to find/discover/subscribe.
- Easier to follow the branches of discussion: Not everyone's
email
client does threading, but it's standard on NG readers.
- We get forum.dlang.org integration and the associated
visibility and
google/bing-ability basically for free.
I didn't realize that beta was any different from the rest (I
always use the
mailing list). It _is_ part of forum.dlang.org already though.
- Jonathan M Davis
But you can't make replies, just like to the
phobos/druntime/internals lists. I'd say that likely prevents
people from giving feedback about the beta; it has a high barrier
to entry.
