On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:23 AM, kcrisman wrote: > On Sep 1, 11:59 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Ahmed Fasih wrote: >>> buntfalke made a good suggestion yesterday and I bring it to your >>> attention: can we merge the #sage-devel and #sage-support >>> channels by >>> forwarding all connections to #sage-support to #sage-devel? >> >> I'm not so sure that is a good idea. Support and developers are two >> entirely different set of people. Proficient users are very >> capable of >> giving support, but my have no idea of code development. People >> developing code (like myself, who is helping in the port to Solaris), >> may have little experience of using Sage. >> >> To me, the two are separate and should remain that way. > > On the other hand, I think there is the very real danger that support > requests will be dropped. This happens from time to time on the > Google group (though hopefully less and less frequently), but I > honestly can't remember a time I've gone to sage-support and not been > told, "go to sage-devel", if I got a response at all (though this is a > while ago). That doesn't meant Dave is wrong, but means there needs > to be some solution.
Definitely keep the mailing lists separate--usually if you're told to go to devel than it's a more interesting/deeper question, but the bulk of sage-support does not belong there. As for the channels, is the concern that no one hangs out in #sage- support? - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
