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On nie, 2017-07-30 at 08:47 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: |
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> Ühel kenal päeval, P, 30.07.2017 kell 07:43, kirjutas Michał Górny: |
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> > On nie, 2017-07-30 at 08:35 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: |
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> > > Ühel kenal päeval, L, 29.07.2017 kell 15:35, kirjutas Andreas K. |
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> > > Huettel: |
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> > > > Am Freitag, 28. Juli 2017, 23:36:04 CEST schrieb Michał Górny: |
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> > > > > Hi, |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > When looking through projects with no members, I've noticed |
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> > > > > that we |
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> > > > > have |
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> > > > > a project called 'Programming' [1], aliased to lang-misc@g.o. |
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> > > > > It |
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> > > > > doesn't |
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> > > > > seem to be touched since being migrated from the old site, and |
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> > > > > it |
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> > > > > houses |
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> > > > > three subprojects: Ada, Haskell and Ruby. The mail alias points |
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> > > > > to |
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> > > > > /dev/null (literally). |
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> > > > > |
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> > > > > Do you think anything of value in this project? Or can I just |
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> > > > > disband |
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> > > > > it, and move the subprojects to top scope? |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Well some lenghty time ago I proposed (as member of the |
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> > > > "Metastructure |
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> > > > project", yay!) to move all programming languages under that |
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> > > > umbrella |
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> > > > - mostly |
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> > > > to clean up our organizational graph. Nobody was really happy |
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> > > > about |
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> > > > that idea. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > So yes, either use it consistently or disband it. Current state |
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> > > > makes |
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> > > > no |
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> > > > sense. |
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> > > |
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> > > Given we have really no other way of grouping of projects, I |
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> > > meanwhile |
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> > > support the idea of near-empty projects housing other subprojects. |
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> > > E.g |
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> > > desktop that was disbanded on even more questionable circumstances. |
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> > > |
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> > > Or maybe the wiki people could whip something up to categorize and |
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> > > group things? |
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> > > |
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> > |
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> > To what purpose, exactly? |
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> |
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> Users to find projects (e.g what desktop to use and see their |
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> respective project pages for gentoo specifics) in a saner way than |
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> cruising through a list of 100+ entries of everything and the kitchen |
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> sink. |
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> Or maybe even the projects themselves to know the similar ones to |
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> cooperate at times. |
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This is not the purpose of project pages, and they're certainly not |
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really useful for that. If you want to cover choice of desktop, make |
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a page 'Choice of desktop environment' or something like that. Do not |
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abuse poorly written half-automation to handle that for you. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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