Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Discussing improvement ideas for jEdit

[Steve J. <ste...@wi...>]

On 25-Sep-07, at 6:41 AM, Shlomy Reinstein wrote:
> Occasionally, we like to discuss ideas for improving jEdit...

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> The SF trackers are not a good medium for such discussions, I think.

Agreed.

> These ideas should be discussed mainly among the group of jEdit
> developers, but should also be accessible (to some extent) to jEdit
> users to comment on. I currently have several such ideas that I've
> written in some Google document and shared with Alan and Matthieu, but
> I'd like to open these for discussion.
>
> Can someone suggest a good medium for this?

Yes, the jedit-users mailing list. Everyone on jedit-devel is  
automatically on that list as well.

> Is the jEdit community
> site an appropriate place (maybe the Wiki in the community site)? For
> the discussions, I think the medium should be such that any user can
> read the discussions but only a limited group (mainly the developers)
> can post to them, while allowing some mechanism for users to add
> comments that do not go directly into the discussions.

That's silly. You just said in the paragraph above that you want  
users to be able to comment, now you say they shouldn't.

For discussions of the "should we do this?" nature, jedit-users is  
appropriate (with the possibile exception of core API change  
discussions). When the discussion changes to "how do we do this?"  
that's usually a good time to move it over to jedit-devel.

Steve Jakob