Re: Mailing list cleanup proposal

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> writes:

> <quote who="Murray Cumming">
> 
> > > Cool. I hope there'll be some consolidation of the bindings lists
> > > (languages vs. libraries, etc).
> > 
> > I'm not aware of any problems at the moment. Surely there aren't any
> > language-specific lists that aren't for discussion of specific bindings
> > libraries?
> 
> There's just a few random tiny mailing lists like orbit-perl-list, etc.

I'm generally on the side of "big active lists", but I don't think
there is anything wrong with a small list if it it has a distinct user
community.

orbit-perl-list was basically created because people generally mailed
me rather than orbit-list with questions about how to use ORBit::Perl,
and I wasn't responding to their questions. These people weren't
"people who used Perl with GNOME" or "people who used ORBit", they
were "people who wanted a CORBA binding for Perl". So, I don't
think consolidation with other lists on gnome.org would make sense.

Regards,
                                        Owen