Yes, it is not an easy decision without knowing the what activity level to 
expect. If there are not enough people active on the mailing list, it reduces 
the value to the participants since their questions will not be answered 
quickly. So specialized mailing lists are necessarily the right answer. A 
separate codebase has significant disadvantages - if you want to find matching 
versions of IronRuby or IronPython to see how they use the DLR, you will have a 
hard time.

Do start using the IronRuby or IronPython mailing lists for DLR questions. If 
the volume of DLR-specific questions goes up, that will make it easier to 
decide to create a separate mailing list.

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Slavo Furman
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:21 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] DLR - where is the community?

Hello!

i was thinking about same ("where to ask DLR specific questions") few days ago 
while reading DLR articles on Tomas Restrepo's weblog (btw, thanks for good 
articles, Tomas... )

maybe it would be a good idea have separate DLR mailing list or forum (for DLR 
specific language agnostic questions). But i am afraid that this is a same sort 
of decision as if there should be separate codebase for DLR or not.

I would prefer separate mailing lists and separate codebase, but I understand 
that it is not easy decision.

thanks,
Slavo.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Sanghyeon Seo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>> wrote:
2008/2/28, Ales Sturala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
> Hi,
>  DLR is nice, but what is still missing is "community". I think there is
>  plenty of people trying DLR, but there is no good source for information
>  except some blogs. What I am really missing is some community forum,
>  where all the developers can look for solutions and discuss their
>  problems. Now it looks those people are spread over the Internet and
>  there is no place for discussion yet ... or maybe I am wrong and I just
>  didn't find it.
Eh, *this* list is a such forum? And IronPython list.

>  Anyway if there is not such place, would be possible to make at least
>  category on MSDN forums for DLR?
I much prefer mailing lists to forums.

--
Seo Sanghyeon
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