Let's bring a little historical context to the issue: before Yesod
starting using the web-devel list, there was virtually no activity on
it.[1] I remember receiving a few very specific emails about where to
direct web development questions, and that's the point at which I
decided to use web-devel as the official Yesod mailing list, to make
sure that such questions wouldn't fall on deaf ears. And I think it's
worked.
I'm opposed to splitting off the Yesod discussions to a separate list
for multiple reasons:
* It's an inconvenience to need to set up a new list and get everyone
to sign up on a different one.
* It's very difficult to know which list should receive a discussion.
For example
* Hamlet is not Yesod-specific, but is mostly used in Yesod. If
someone asks a question about Hamlet, involving some Yesod code...
where does it go?
* Does WAI need to be spun off into Yesod discussions? Currently,
it's only used by Yesod, but Happstack is planning on moving over to
it soon.
* I would actually prefer pulling in the Snap and Happstack mailing
lists to web-devel: I think there is a lot of room for better
discussions if we're all talking together by default. I'm already
subscribed to both mailing lists, and I don't think it will be a
problem to include that traffic here.
tl;dr: I think that it's a very fine line between framework-specific
and framework-related, and we should stop making such distinctions.
Michael
[1] http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/web-devel/2009/date.html
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Jasper Van der Jeugt
Hello all,
I was wondering if it would be possible to direct Yesod-specific discussion to a separate mailing list. I do not have any disrespect towards Yesod, the main problem is that one can only read some finite number of mailing lists before being overwhelmed.
A certain portion of Yesod-related mails certainly belong on the web-devel list. I'm thinking of e.g. RFC's, announcements, libraries. These are all mails which are of interest to the webdev community as a whole.
However, there's a difference between Yesod-related and Yesod specific. Personally, I am not interested in "How to do X in Yesod" mails, because I don't know much about Yesod, and sometimes it's hard to manually "filter" this mailing list before reading it.
I think it would benefit the two types of readers if we could move Yesod-specific discussion to a separate mailing list.
Cheers, Jasper
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