Pull freeze

Kapps opantm2+spam at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 18:00:51 PDT 2012


On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 23:06:00 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 18:55:33 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Along those lines, I really think dmd-beta should me moved to 
>> the
>> newsgroups. Granted, I am biased since I hate mailing lists. 
>> But moving
>> it to NG means:
>> 
>> - Consistency with the rest of the D traffic.
>> - Easier to find/discover/subscribe.
>> - Easier to follow the branches of discussion: Not everyone's 
>> email
>> client does threading, but it's standard on NG readers.
>> - We get forum.dlang.org integration and the associated 
>> visibility and
>> google/bing-ability basically for free.
>
> I didn't realize that beta was any different from the rest (I 
> always use the
> mailing list). It _is_ part of forum.dlang.org already though.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

But you can't make replies, just like to the 
phobos/druntime/internals lists. I'd say that likely prevents 
people from giving feedback about the beta; it has a high barrier 
to entry.



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