On 26.11.2008, at 15:13, Seth Woodworth wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Simon Schampijer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Martin Dengler wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 07:50:43PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >>>> On 24.11.2008, at 19:38, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote: >>>>> On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Luke Faraone wrote: >>>>>> [yet-another-mailing list proposal] >>>>> A big +1 here. Go, Luke, go! >>>> >>>> The more typical setup would be #sugar for user questions and >>>> #sugar- >>>> devel as refuge for developers. >>> >>> +1. Keep it simple (users don't use sugar-users, they use sugar). >>> >>>> - Bert - >>> >>> Martin >> >> yup - #sugar for novices and #sugar-devel for the rest of us sounds >> good >> to me too :) >> > > > I'm still not convinced that this is a good idea *yet*. Splitting > #sugar and #sugar-devel should only happen after there are too many > users asking questions in #sugar. The first rule of the internet is > not making a rule until there is a problem. > > But either way, if you start publishing that #sugar is now help, I'll > start hanging out there.
I have little experience with IRC, but I found that it's really good for a community to have a special mailing list for beginners, where "dumb" questions are explicitly welcome. I was rather skeptical a few years ago when it was proposed to have a "squeak-beginners" list in addition to the "squeak-dev" list. But it really encouraged newbies to speak up. And it should bear "beginners" or something similar in its name to make the purpose blatantly obvious. - Bert - _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
