----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaronrabiddog51@aaronwl.com> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [boost] Re: Proposal: Library to manage processes
Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
I'll let you know when I have a somewhat decent document that lists all the required features in detail as well as some design ideas to get some feedback. (Dunno when that'll be though; my time is probably going to be limited from now on...)
Keep in mind that you only need to submit a very preliminary document to geneate further discussion. It's best to keep the discussion going while there are a number of people interested.
Is there some way we have in this community to indicate a list of people interested in a certain topic?
What I'd really like to do is say 'CC me whenever you post about this topic' but then thats sort of an unreasonable request. I get so much mail that I miss half of the stuff I'm interested in.
I agree. Here are a few ideas I have: 1. One approach is to use the wiki. We could ask that new library proposals create a wiki page, and ask that those interested just add their name (or nickname) to a list on the wiki page. However, the wiki I find is hard to use and is aggressive with blocking (I am currently blocked!), so I don't love this approach 2. Another option is to set up a new mailing list for each new library discussions. This would help reduce noise on the main mailing list. This can be done relatively quickly and easily using google groups. 3. Have the mailing list enforce some kind of subject naming convention. For instance all future profiling library topics would arrive with the subject tagged with [boost][new][profiling] and all existing libraries would be tagged like [boost][old][mpl]. Clearly this is extra work for the moderators to assure that the naming convention is followed but it could really help eliminate noise, track topics, find messages, avoid redundancy, etc. There could also be web services created which sort the topics into RSS feeds. The third option is my favourite, but we would need to probably recruit more moderators. Which is not neccessarily a bad idea. I would be willing to volunteer to help if need be. -- Christopher Diggins Object Oriented Template Library (OOTL) http://www.ootl.org