[gobo-eiffel-develop] new mailing lists

[<fr...@ne...>]

>> So what I'm planing to
>> do is to create one mailing list per Gobo library and tool:

I'm sorry I missed the original message so I'm commenting a bit 
too late, but is it really useful to have that many mailing lists? 
In my opinion, mailing lists generally should be divided when 
the volume on one is too big.

To me Gobo is a whole and I think people interested in Gobo 
are normally interested in it as a whole, even if they don't 
actively take part in all areas. It's interesting to see what 
happens in other areas even if you don't develop them, and 
you can throw in the odd comment in other areas or catch 
general threads which just drift to the general from something 
specific. By dividing the structure, people will only 
subscribe to what they're explicitely interested in and miss 
half the interesting discussions which inevitably will be 
in the 'wrong' list. Plus it undermines the project spirit 
as people won't know what the others are doing.

It's also a bit odd to have more mailing lists than active 
developers.

If there's a need for segmentation, I'd rather see 
develop vs. user (questions about existing code, new 
user questions etc) rather than having so many lists.

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Franck Arnaud ~ email: fr...@ne...