BPN: BioPerl Nouveau [Was: Re: [Bioperl-l] distant thoughts from a dinosaur...]

[Ewan Birney]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Aaron J Mackey wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Ewan Birney wrote:
> 
> > > I think the discussion should happen here, but it should have its own
> > > commit list - we should **NOT** split the discussion of experimental stuff from
> >                           ^^^^^^^
> >     **DOH** missing NOT.  Need Coffee.
> >
> > > the mainstream - it encourages silly cross-posting and multiple
> 
> After a few readings, I found the missing NOT.
> 
> I think the experimental stuff should stay on it's own list, just as we're
> keeping it in it's own repository.  Avoids confusion for those who read
> bioperl-l as users (and cleanly separates "this is a bioperl-live problem"
> posts from the "this is a bioperl-exp issue" messages ...)
> 

Hmmm. I'd vote not for this - by having two discussion groups we tend to 
split the people and as long as the experimental stuff is not too long 
winded, people will cope. Threaded mail/news readers also implicitly help 
this.


Other peoples views?


> I'm sure our savvy mailling list manager can setup a bioperl-all that
> get's everything (although replies get sent back to the correct list).
> 



> -Aaron
> 
> -- 
>  Aaron J Mackey
>  Pearson Laboratory
>  University of Virginia
>  (434) 924-2821
>  amackey at virginia.edu
> 
> 
> 

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