Re: [gentoo-project] Usefulness of Project:Programming (lang-misc)

[Mart Raudsepp]

Ühel kenal päeval, P, 30.07.2017 kell 07:43, kirjutas Michał Górny:
> On nie, 2017-07-30 at 08:35 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> > Ühel kenal päeval, L, 29.07.2017 kell 15:35, kirjutas Andreas K.
> > Huettel:
> > > Am Freitag, 28. Juli 2017, 23:36:04 CEST schrieb Michał Górny:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > When looking through projects with no members, I've noticed
> > > > that we
> > > > have
> > > > a project called 'Programming' [1], aliased to lang-misc@g.o.
> > > > It
> > > > doesn't
> > > > seem to be touched since being migrated from the old site, and
> > > > it
> > > > houses
> > > > three subprojects: Ada, Haskell and Ruby. The mail alias points
> > > > to
> > > > /dev/null (literally).
> > > >
> > > > Do you think anything of value in this project? Or can I just
> > > > disband
> > > > it, and move the subprojects to top scope?
> > >
> > > Well some lenghty time ago I proposed (as member of the
> > > "Metastructure 
> > > project", yay!) to move all programming languages under that
> > > umbrella
> > > - mostly 
> > > to clean up our organizational graph. Nobody was really happy
> > > about
> > > that idea. 
> > >
> > > So yes, either use it consistently or disband it. Current state
> > > makes
> > > no 
> > > sense.
> >
> > Given we have really no other way of grouping of projects, I
> > meanwhile
> > support the idea of near-empty projects housing other subprojects.
> > E.g
> > desktop that was disbanded on even more questionable circumstances.
> >
> > Or maybe the wiki people could whip something up to categorize and
> > group things?
> >
>
> To what purpose, exactly?

Users to find projects (e.g what desktop to use and see their
respective project pages for gentoo specifics) in a saner way than
cruising through a list of 100+ entries of everything and the kitchen
sink.
Or maybe even the projects themselves to know the similar ones to
cooperate at times.