On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 14:33 +0100, Claus Reinke wrote:
As we sit here riding the Haskell wave:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/tmp/cafe.png
with nearly 2000 (!) people reading haskell-cafe@, perhaps its time to think some more about how to build and maintain this lovely Haskell community we have.
- haskell-cafe is meant to be the general forum, that shouldn't change. but i think there is potential to spin off one or two more specialist lists (not too many, or they'll dry out, and not too specific, or they won't attract the haskell-cafe style of membership and content; we also do not want to start cross-postings to keep the synergies of a multitopic forum).
the most obvious one being 'haskell-performance' for shootout entries, 'how do i improve this?', 'what is wrong here?', and 'why isn't haskell slow?' style of questions, profiling, space&time leaks, compiler benchmarks, optimizations, transformations, representations, libs, tools, papers, etc.
I really like this. ^
another possible candidate, judging from mails and blog postings, might be 'haskell-math', for numeric and algebra libs, apps, tools, classes, theory, and math-related algorithms and data structures, and general discussions.
This I'm much much less certain or keen about. Most such questions start as legitimate Haskell questions. Furthermore, I think the replies are often helpful to people who probably wouldn't subscribe to a 'haskell-math' list. (Still it would be nice to have such a venue to just talk about the relation between Haskell and math.) I don't think almost anyone has a problem with such discussions and it seems that many "non-theoretical" readers enjoy them.