I agree, we really should create this new group. Brilliant.
/Anders 14 jun 2008 kl. 11.51 skrev T.J. Crowder: > > Hi folks, > > What say we create a new group to replace this one, perhaps called > "Prototype Scriptaculous Users"? I have four reasons for suggesting > this: > > 1. Prototype and Scriptaculous have grown far beyond their Ruby-on- > Rails spinoff status, and I'll even venture to say (speaking off the > top of my head, based on no data or research whatsoever) that most > users of Prototype and Scriptaculous don't use Ruby or Rails. > > 2. People keep posting Ruby questions to the group; hopefully taking > "ruby" out of the name will minimize that. > > 3. People searching for Prototype help will probably be more likely to > find the group (although I don't think it's currently a massive > problem; I was pretty unusure when I first found it, though). > > 4. We can turn on new member post moderation and stop the spam; we can > limit page posting to managers only (being fairly liberal with who we > add as managers). > > Regarding #4: Moderating posts from new members is a PITA, but I > think there are enough of us who are active enough -- kangax, Fred P., > JDD, Christophe, RobG, Walter D., and lately myself -- that if we make > all of us managers, new messages will get approved pretty quickly. > > Just to reserve the name (don't ask me why), I've created the group > but completely locked it down until/unless we decide to use it. If > so, I'll open it up and add people as managers, and if someone more > appropriate would like to take ownership of the group, I'll happily > set them up. > > Thoughts? > -- > T.J. Crowder > tj / crowder software / com > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
