+1 There’s lots of theoretical and practical use case stuff I’d love to discuss, but I’m aware it makes things harder for the technical contributors trying to find things.
I’ll partake mostly in the user list, and just lurk in the dev list whilst I try to pick up some of the more technical aspects. Pete On 16 Nov 2013, at 17:22, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > We've had a lot of mailing list traffic lately. Already, halfway > through the month of November, there are far more than all the > messages from October. This is a great problem, but I'm getting some > feedback that indicates we're going to lose some ML members if we > don't find a way to decrease traffic. > > This is a critical time for the development of the NuPIC software, and > much of the discussion has been about software engineering and > technical decisions about how NuPIC should evolve. These conversations > will only grow as NuPIC grows. > > Other major topics include CLA theory and NuPIC usage. > > I propose creating a new mailing list, called "nupic-dev", which sends > emails with the subject prefix "[nupic-dev]" (just like this one does > currently). Also, we change the email subject prefix for *this* list > to "[nupic-users]". So we'll have two lists: > > "[nupic-dev]": [email protected] > Topics: > - NuPIC development > - algorithm implementation > - software engineering processes and strategies > - future of the NuPIC project > > "[nupic-users]": [email protected] > Topics: > - HTM / CLA theory > - NuPIC usage (installation, use-cases, projects) > > Hopefully, we'll keep all our current subscribers on [nupic-users], > and those interested in the development of NuPIC will also subscribe > to [nupic-dev], where we'll continue having discussions involving the > development of the NuPIC software. > > As open source projects grow, they usually have a few mailing lists > associated with them, including xxx-dev, xxx-users, xxx-ann > (annoucements), and sometimes more. At some point in the future, there > may even be a point to break out a [nupic-theory] list up from > [nupic-users]. > > Anyone opposed? I'm going to let this topic ride for a few days to let > people have a chance to comment before taking any action. This is your > chance to weigh in. > > --------- > Matt Taylor > OS Community Flag-Bearer > Numenta > > _______________________________________________ > nupic mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org _______________________________________________ nupic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org
