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  • From: Flavien Bridault <f.bridault AT fra.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] New sections [Was: New archive and perl-cpan maintainer]
  • Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:17:52 +0100

Le Mardi 22 Février 2005 20:30, Arwed von Merkatz a écrit :
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:56:44AM -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > On Feb 22, Eric Sandall [eric AT sandall.us] wrote:
> > > Quoting Thomas Houssin <thomas.houssin AT gmail.com>:
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > > So we have several ideas to split the utils section :
> > > >...
> > > > Does this seems a good idea to everybody ? Other ideas ?
> >
> > I actually started yesterday on a full list of new sections out of
> > utils+shell-term-fm. I think I'm 2/3 of the way there.
>
> Great, thanks :)
>
> > > Looks fine to me, though utils looks like it'll still be a catch-all
> > > and rather large while some of the sections (admintools, don't have
> > > spaces in section names ;)) will be fairly small. Do we have problems
> > > with small sections? Are there any other items we can/will add to the
> > > admintools section?
>
> I think we can live with many small sections. As long as they stay small
> one guru can easily maintain several of them, if they get bigger it can
> be split among several gurus.
> With smaller sections it would probably also be easier to find people
> willing to maintain a section. Currently some sections like libs and
> utils are so big they scare away any possibly volunteers ;)
Well, devel is another one ;-)

> > The list I'm working on now does not have a "utils" section anymore. It
> > has quite a few sections, some of which are rather small at the moment...
> > my thought is to just categorize everything however makes sense, then
> > send it to the list for discussion with the assumption some of the
> > smaller ones can get recombined.
> >
> > I'll try to send a full draft out tomorrow night; if I don't have it done
> > by then I'll just send whatever I have.

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