On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Lars Müller
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:37:42PM +0200, Alex Naumov wrote:
I think it will be great to create a new mailing list about python development on openSUSE.
As I can see we have opensuse-ruby and opensuse-java mailing lists already.
Have you checked the amount of postings to both of these lists?
The list traffic is very, very low each months. If you count all postings for this year which cover the programming scope in general you get for the three lists we currently have:
opensuse-ruby 141 postings opensuse-programming 55 postings opensuse-java 35 postings
It's the gerneral approach to create a new list when the amount of traffic caused by a particular topic requires it.
Thanks for your reply Lars, but, for example, I use official python-ML until now, because I didn't found one about python on lists.opensuse.org, and I think I'm not the only one who do this. Now I ask about something openSUSE related, because it's not so easy sometimes to build/find some frameworks or just modules. And, as I said, I believe that this new ML can help to bring oS-python people together.
We already have more than 80 different mailing lists. Instead of creating yet a new one dedicated to python I suggest to close the opensuse-ruby and opensuse-java and instead use opensuse-programming for all programming languages, topics, and questions.
Yes, everybody can use one ML for all programming questions, but will it be really comfortably for our community?
Even one combined list is easy to manage if the authors work with speaking subject lines.
Please keep in mind that each new list leads to more fragmentation of our community.
Hm... only for our python community, I guess :) By the way, before I started this topic here, I created a poll at connect. Everybody are welcome to vote: https://connect.opensuse.org/pg/polls/read/Alexander_Naumov/41665/do-we-need... This poll will change nothing, but so we can better see the opinion of our community.
Cheers,
Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team + SUSE Labs SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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