On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 07:05 -0700, Greg Weber wrote:
To summarize this thread, many subscribers would like this mail list to have a "higher signal to noise ratio". One aspect of this is *very* Yesod specific development discussions.
With emphasis on the "very specific", yes. It's great to have a place where general web development topics can be discussed, and those will obviously involve specific frameworks at some times. I'm not sure there's a rule we can make here that will make any sense; it really comes down to people taking a minute to consider whether they are talking about anything that makes sense outside of that very specific context; and if so, then great! It's up to individuals on the list to: (a) make that decision, and (b) make sure the list is always presented as a general discussion forum for web development in Haskell, and not as a project-specific forum. I think what all this comes down to is that web frameworks (and Yesod on particular -- I'm not saying that as a bad thing, there's just a lot MORE stuff in it) are at least an order of magnitude more complex than most Haskell libraries. That's why I can read a random thread on haskell-cafe and understand what it's saying, but my chances of even comprehending a random thread here are really rather low. And I don't think it's my intelligence or lack of general web development knowledge at fault there; just the nature of the stuff we're talking about. -- Chris Smith