On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 12:51 +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:

Am Samstag, 2. Mai 2009 14:11 schrieb Mads Lindstrøm:

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Hi

I wanted a mailing list for my project WxGeneric and I am wondering when it is OK to do so? How big must the potential audience be? Is there any kind of etiquette or guidelines?

Here http://haskell.org/mailman/admin it says that I must have "the proper authority" to create a mailing list. What is meant by "proper authority"? Can I just try to create one and see if I am successful? Or must I request someone to do it?

Hello,

I think there are two Mailmans on haskell.org. The page http://haskell.org/mailman/admin refers to the one which hosts haskell-cafe, ghc-users, etc. The other one hosts the mailing lists of projects.haskell.org.

You can host relatively small projects on projects.haskell.org and you can create a mailing list for each of them. So maybe projects.haskell.org is the way to go for you?

Yes, I would recommend for smaller project-specific mailing lists that you take advantage of the community server which is set up for this purpose. We provide code hosting, project webspace, shell access, trac instances and mailing lists. You can pick and choose, you don't need to use all of them. See http://community.haskell.org/ Duncan

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Daniel Carrera wrote:

Would this not fit well in the wxHaskell mailing list? That list is not very high traffic and there is an obvious overlap in the target audience.

Daniel.

This was my thought as well. Adding another list is considerable overhead, and keeping it on the wxHaskell list has the benefits of no-administration and possibly drawing in interested wxHaskellers (and I imagine many issues will turn out to be wxHaskell issues, so keeping them in the loop from the start is a good idea anyway). -- gwern