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From: merlyn@stonehenge•com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To: Dill <sarpulhu@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Git Forum
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:42:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86lk3n6hih.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60646ee10804081615y6817f707ufbb4a544d166059@mail.gmail.com> (sarpulhu@gmail.com's message of "Tue, 8 Apr 2008 17:15:46 -0600")

>>>>> "Dill" == Dill  <sarpulhu@gmail•com> writes:

Dill> I'm sorry it wasn't my intent to split the group but make it more
Dill> diverse. There has been some good points made though. I was thinking
Dill> more along the lines that the forum would kind of be an offshoot of
Dill> what's happening in the blogosphere as a lot of Git discussion happens
Dill> and occurs separate of this list and I was thinking of some place they
Dill> could group together and chat. Of course here is a good spot but most
Dill> seem to know about this list but choose to talk outside of it. I was
Dill> just hoping that the forum would help those people. Dylan.

So, there are two separate issues here:

1) whether beginners should be in a different place from the developers

2) whether a beginners list should be a web forum or just another
   mailing list?

I won't speak to point 1, because I can see both sides of it, but I'll
be adamant about point 2:

   web forums suck

Please, if you're gonna do this, make it a mailing list.  Preferrably some
place that also has an NNTP feed, and a (gack) web view for those who prefer
that.

Why do people insist on reinventing email, badly?

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-08 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-08 23:15 ANNOUNCE: Git Forum Dill
2008-04-08 23:42 ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-08 21:51 Dill
2008-04-08 22:25 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-04-08 22:32   ` Dill
2008-04-09 10:19     ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-04-08 22:36   ` Martin Langhoff
2008-04-08 22:45     ` Dill
2008-04-08 22:51       ` Martin Langhoff
2008-04-11 13:42         ` John Goerzen
2008-04-11 18:00           ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-04-08 22:55       ` Jakub Narebski
2008-04-08 22:53   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-08 20:32 Dill
2008-04-08 21:19 ` Kenneth P. Turvey
2008-04-08 23:01   ` Patrick Aljord
2008-04-08 23:07     ` Martin Langhoff
2008-04-08 23:18       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-04-08 23:18       ` Avery Pennarun
2008-04-09  0:49         ` DigitalPig
2008-04-09 16:57           ` Robert Haines
2008-04-09 18:08         ` Daniel Barkalow

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