On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Personally, I think that this memory is enough for trying the beginners list. Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
