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

[Lincoln Stein]

We need a bioperl-help group for the newbies.  Don't we have one already?

That way we can keep all development chatter in one big unruly list without 
scaring the newbies off.

Lincoln


On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:12 am, 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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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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