Hi John, On 1 Aug., 11:48, John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That's why I think that the attitude of banning certain subjects and > > interning them into specialised lists is dangerous for Sage. > > I have never thought that certain subjects should in any way be > "banned" from sage-devel or sage-support.
I repeatedly had the impression that if one of the words "solaris" or "coercion" or "category" occurs in a post then there will soon be the suggestion to move it to another list. I'm not a native English speaker, but that sounds like "banning" to me. > But if a small group of > people are working on something which is only of interest to number > theorists (say) then it's fine for that discussion to take place on > sage-nt. ... which on average had less than one post per day, in the past six months, and whose set of members probably has a considerable intersection with the set of members of sage-algebra. That's why I suggested to form a bigger list out of these two, or perhaps even of these two plus sage-combinat-devel (although that may have a different flavour). My idea of "specialisation" is that one has a larger field of "increased" interest, containing a more narrow field where one really is an expert. E.g., I have a general interest in "abstract nonsense", and thus I would like to keep a general overview of what people on sage-nt, sage-algebra and sage-combinat-devel are doing, although I am certainly not an expert in number theory. Combining the three lists would (according to the current figures) be about 1300 posts in six months. That's a bit more than 7 per day, I guess that will result in one or two new threads per day. Thus the resulting list would still be small enough to be able to keep an overview of what is happening - more easily with one list than with three lists. And the topic would still be narrow enough so that specialists can easily pick raisins. > And I know that there are people who read the specialist > lists such as sage-nt frequently but who look at the general list much > less often (out of the now slightly out-dated view that there are > hundreds of postings per day!). Yep. In my previous post, that's been the first scenario of how to frustrate novices... Cheers, Simon -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
