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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] new section apps-emacs?
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:48:04 +0200

On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:32:14AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>:
> > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 12:38:34PM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > we have a volunteer for a new section apps-emacs (see bug 6999[1]).
> > > I think it's a good idea to have a new section for emacs based apps if
> > > there are that many, just want to get some input whether people agree
> > > and what the name of the section should be.
> > >
> > This is a dangerous path... how far are we going to keep splitting? the
> > apps name suggests apps-*
> >
> > I already hate having to search for the correct section in audio-* and
> > video-* and x11-* and ftp-* and chat-*
> >
> > I am against this from the beginning... I like simplicity (KISS) so
> > would rather have large sections than multiple sections (unknown and/or
> > un-rememberable for me).
>
> Good point.
>
> Perhaps baux should help Pieter with the editors section and just put the
> spells
> in there? That would about double the editors numbers, but with two people
> that
> wouldn't be too bad.

I guess most of them wouldn't go to editors, but rather to chat-irc,
mail, news and other sections. Of course it's possible to do that, but
makes it a bit harder to have them maintained by one person.

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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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