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From: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Usefulness of Project:Programming (lang-misc)
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 05:35:50
Message-Id: 1501392943.2622.1.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Usefulness of Project:Programming (lang-misc) by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 Ühel kenal päeval, L, 29.07.2017 kell 15:35, kirjutas Andreas K.
2 Huettel:
3 > Am Freitag, 28. Juli 2017, 23:36:04 CEST schrieb Michał Górny:
4 > > Hi,
5 > >
6 > > When looking through projects with no members, I've noticed that we
7 > > have
8 > > a project called 'Programming' [1], aliased to lang-misc@g.o. It
9 > > doesn't
10 > > seem to be touched since being migrated from the old site, and it
11 > > houses
12 > > three subprojects: Ada, Haskell and Ruby. The mail alias points to
13 > > /dev/null (literally).
14 > >
15 > > Do you think anything of value in this project? Or can I just
16 > > disband
17 > > it, and move the subprojects to top scope?
18 >
19 > Well some lenghty time ago I proposed (as member of the
20 > "Metastructure 
21 > project", yay!) to move all programming languages under that umbrella
22 > - mostly 
23 > to clean up our organizational graph. Nobody was really happy about
24 > that idea. 
25 >
26 > So yes, either use it consistently or disband it. Current state makes
27 > no 
28 > sense.
29
30 Given we have really no other way of grouping of projects, I meanwhile
31 support the idea of near-empty projects housing other subprojects. E.g
32 desktop that was disbanded on even more questionable circumstances.
33
34 Or maybe the wiki people could whip something up to categorize and
35 group things?

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Re: [gentoo-project] Usefulness of Project:Programming (lang-misc) "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>