Hello, I'd like to know if user's questions are welcome in this mailinglist. You all discuss about bugs or implementation of new features, that's quite interesting, and I hope i will submit some externals or some bug-fix soon, but do you plan to create a new mailinglist dedicated to users, keeping this one for "developers" ? I'm happy with the existing list, but this could avoid message like "hum, excuse me disturbing you, gentlemen, but I got no sound with pd, sorry... please help me, i can't sleep for a week!!" and perhaps help people who do not dare to put some simple questions :-). Some of you will tell me that it's not worth it, or that it's not very necessary, but this could help to differentiate usage from developement, and promote more discussions about the different uses of Pd.
Thank you. Nicolas Lhommet
I have never noticed anything about user-like questions being unwelcome on this list, as it is reasonably low-traffic anyway.
Personally, since this list is reasonably well publicised, everyone here is a user, and only some of us are developers, I think we should probably have a separate pd-dev-list for development chat (if we were to make the split). But, I'm not sure if such a split is necessary with the current level of traffic. It would perhaps make users more comfortable to post their problems here if they knew they weren't bugging the developers.
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On Tue, 1 May 2001, Nicolas Lhommet wrote:
Hello, I'd like to know if user's questions are welcome in this mailinglist. You all discuss about bugs or implementation of new features, that's quite interesting, and I hope i will submit some externals or some bug-fix soon, but do you plan to create a new mailinglist dedicated to users, keeping this one for "developers" ? I'm happy with the existing list, but this could avoid message like "hum, excuse me disturbing you, gentlemen, but I got no sound with pd, sorry... please help me, i can't sleep for a week!!" and perhaps help people who do not dare to put some simple questions :-). Some of you will tell me that it's not worth it, or that it's not very necessary, but this could help to differentiate usage from developement, and promote more discussions about the different uses of Pd.
Thank you. Nicolas Lhommet
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Hi, all.
In my view it's important to keep the developers and users on one list for the following reasons:
a) there are probably grey areas between 'use' and 'development'; b) users would probably need the expertise that developers have and there is a likelihood that developers would migrate away from the users' list and leave users under-resourced.
I know from the CSound list that there is a healthy mix of expertise which means that a rich response comes very quickly to even simple requests. And the debate can get quite lively too. As a CSound user I find the discussions about CSound internals quite interesting, even though much of it is a bit opaque to me as a non-programmer.
Richard Bowers.
| Hello, | I'd like to know if user's questions are welcome in this mailinglist. | You all discuss about bugs or implementation of new features, that's quite | interesting, and I hope i will submit some externals or some bug-fix soon, | but do you plan to create a new mailinglist dedicated to users, keeping this | one for "developers" ? | I'm happy with the existing list, but this could avoid message like "hum, | excuse me disturbing you, gentlemen, but I got no sound with pd, sorry... | please help me, i can't sleep for a week!!" and perhaps help people who do | not dare to put some simple questions :-). | Some of you will tell me that it's not worth it, or that it's not very | necessary, but this could help to differentiate usage from developement, and | promote more discussions about the different uses of Pd. | | Thank you. | Nicolas Lhommet | | |
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