Bart Zonneveld wrote: > > How'bout splitting this list up into a more "beginners" oriented > version, and a discussion one? > This list is called rspec-users, so let's let this be the starting > point of questions like "I can't get rspec/cucumber/whatyouhaving to > work", and have a rspec-discussion list with the more high level/BDD- > oriented discussions?
My own experience with this sort of bifurcation has not been happy. Putting all levels of experience together seems to provide a richer and more satisfactory experience for all, in most cases. Where the audience spans a vast range of experience then a seemingly innocuous how-to question like, How do I get this regexp to work in cucumber, may lead into a more fulsome examination of not only how, but why and when, you use regexp in testing at all and why and when you should not. The real value of experience lies in knowing what questions you should be asking and not in just parroting back answers to the problem posed. That sort of expansiveness, of looking at the underlying issues, tends to disappear in nube/old-hand lists. If a mailing list is divided arbitrarily along knowledge lines then one has created an additional task of evaluating which list to post on. If the list is to be divided at all, and I am not convinced that there exists any pressing reason to do so, then I believe that it should be fractured along the subject matter rather than experience levels. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
