[m-dev.] Re: Mercury mailing lists
Fergus Henderson
fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Mon Mar 5 22:21:01 AEDT 2001
On 28-Feb-2001, Robert Jeschofnik <rejj at students.cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
> On 27-Feb-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
>
> > Also, quite a bit of interesting discussion about Mercury takes
> > place on the mercury-developers mailing list, but that list is
> > a very high volume list, mostly because we post all our changes
> > and code reviews there. I propose that we split that list into two,
> > by creating a new list called say `mercury-patches', for posting diffs
> > of actual changes, and reviews of those diffs, while leaving the
> > existing `mercury-developers' list for general discussion, e.g.
> > about proposed new features, future directions, and so forth.
>
> Although the names probably aren't all that important, I'd rather see
> it split into something like mercury-technical for the talk, and
> mercury-development (or the like) for the code and reviews.
I don't think it's worth renaming mercury-development as mercury-developers;
that's more effort and annoyance than it's worth.
So, which do you all prefer, mercury-developers & mercury-technical
or mercury-patches & mercury-developers?
Any other suggestions for the names?
--
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| of excellence is a lethal habit"
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