On 5/16/2012 10:06 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
I think that some official Pharo blog (maybe written by Esteban) would be very helpful. Some kind of not very extensive technical information source that will help people to stay in touch with Pharo progress. Ok we will do a private mailing-list. I would prefer not. I am not a core developer. But I like reading this list. I personally do not find the volume all that big a problem.
Any reasonable mail program can present you with the a threaded view. Allow you to mark threads as read. Read what you want and mark all the rest as read. Or whatever. No one has to read all the messages.
That will explain what is being changed in Pharo and why. I think that developers than will see the changes like positive not as alien ones. Why people do not register to pharo-users? Possibly what we need to do is have a few people who can move or forward discussions to the pharo-users list and encourage non-development-of-Pharo messages there.
But this will require that all the people that we depend upon to answer messages here also subscribe to and respond on pharo-users. If we can do that then over time we will have a culture of the right messages going to the right list. But ultimately, that won't reduce the volume of anything. Neither will using Stack Overflow. Should one be a subscriber to all. Just MHO. Jimmie