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

Heikki Lehvaslaiho heikki at ebi.ac.uk
Tue Jul 8 15:32:20 EDT 2003


Better to keep all discussions in bioperl-l. The mess we got into with
bioperl-guts-l convinced me about that.

In practise, there are always discussions which happen outside list. The
main thing is to remember to report some of it with conclusions back. 

	-Heikki

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:12, Ewan Birney wrote:
> 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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