[nem-en] Re: Forum vs list (was: Documentation comments clarificationand proposals [Long])

[Andrey Khropov]

Michal Moskal wrote:

> On 11/9/06, Kamil Skalski <kamil.skalski at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Nah, the google group was there to replace the forum, but I guess it
> > > didn't work out very well :/
> > > 
> > 
> > Well, considering http://groups-beta.google.com/group/nemerle-en
> > interface, it is really close to "forum" :) Anyway, maybe we should
> > merge devel-en and nemerle-en? The theoretical difference
> > developers/users is not really valid for those lists anyway.
> 
> I'm only affraid of creating even more mess -- asking people to
> resubscribe, or resubscribing them all and risking anger because of
> now-not-working filters and the like.

I'm quite satisfied with the present situation. 
I check both Newsgroups (although "devel" is a little more convinient to read
with an offline newsreader).

I think it's a good idea to have one newsgroup for people involved in
compiler/IDE integration development (discussing proposals, technical details,
asking for help with compiler internals etc.)
and another for people who just want to learn a language or simply ask how
particular mechanism is implemented in Nemerle just for the sake of interest in
programming languages.

Look at DigitalMars.D newsgroups for example.

They have 
	DigitalMars.D 		    for general language discussions
	DigitalMars.D.announce   for announcements of new compiler releases and
libraries
	DigitalMars.D.bugs 	    for discussion of bugs (bugs are cross-posted from
bugtracker)
	DigitalMars.D.learn	    here people just asking for help with troubles or
					    'how to do this in D'.

-- 
AKhropov