Re: [sage-devel] Re: List condensation

2011-10-30 Thread Francois Bissey
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:35:46 Simon King wrote: > > It is a > > bit of pity. sage-on-gentoo generates a bit of traffic on the > > gentoo-science mailing list and the occasional thread here. > > sage-on-gentoo? Is that yet another list I haven't been aware of? Just for clarification I work on portin

[sage-devel] Re: List condensation

2011-08-01 Thread kcrisman
> +1 for disbanding sage-marketing and merging that with sage-devel.  +1 > for disbanding sage-newbie (encourage sage-support instead) and merging > sage-solaris with sage-devel, and maybe even merging sage-windows with > sage-devel. Note that sage-newbie was never a support list, but instead an

[sage-devel] Re: List condensation

2011-08-01 Thread Jason Grout
On 8/1/11 7:19 AM, Simon King wrote: sage-newbie, sage-solaris, sage-flame, sage-marketing and sage-edu together made up for 133 posts in six months. Moving all of it to sage- devel would mean an increment of about 4%. If part of it was moved to sage-support instead, the increment would be even l

[sage-devel] Re: List condensation

2011-08-01 Thread Simon King
Hi! On 1 Aug., 15:18, kcrisman wrote: > sage-marketing, and probably others, were proposed because people on > sage-devel didn't necessarily want to be bothered with tons of details > of that nature. sage-newbie, sage-solaris, sage-flame, sage-marketing and sage-edu together made up for 133 post

[sage-devel] Re: List condensation

2011-08-01 Thread kcrisman
On Aug 1, 7:10 am, John Cremona wrote: > Whenever I have suggested that a discussion move from sage-devel to > sage-algebra or sage-nt, it has not been because I did not want to see > it on sage-devel, but only because there are people who I thought > would be interested and have something usefu

Re: [sage-devel] Re: List condensation

2011-08-01 Thread Francois Bissey
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:35:46 Simon King wrote: > > It is a > > bit of pity. sage-on-gentoo generates a bit of traffic on the > > gentoo-science mailing list and the occasional thread here. > > sage-on-gentoo? Is that yet another list I haven't been aware of? Just for clarification I work on portin

Re: [sage-devel] Re: List condensation

2011-08-01 Thread John Cremona
Whenever I have suggested that a discussion move from sage-devel to sage-algebra or sage-nt, it has not been because I did not want to see it on sage-devel, but only because there are people who I thought would be interested and have something useful to say on the topic who would probably not see i

[sage-devel] Re: List condensation

2011-08-01 Thread Simon King
Hi John, On 1 Aug., 11:48, John Cremona wrote: > > That's why I think that the attitude of banning certain subjects and > > interning them into specialised lists is dangerous for Sage. > > I have never thought that certain subjects should in any way be > "banned" from sage-devel or sage-support.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: List condensation

2011-08-01 Thread John Cremona
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Simon King wrote: > Hi Francois and all, > > On 1 Aug., 05:52, Francois Bissey > wrote: >> In the case of sage-marketing, no impact what so ever since I had no clue >> such a list existed. > > QED... > >> It is a >> bit of pity. sage-on-gentoo generates a bit of t

[sage-devel] Re: List condensation

2011-08-01 Thread Simon King
Hi Francois and all, On 1 Aug., 05:52, Francois Bissey wrote: > In the case of sage-marketing, no impact what so ever since I had no clue > such a list existed. QED... > It is a > bit of pity. sage-on-gentoo generates a bit of traffic on the gentoo-science > mailing list and the occasional thre

Re: [sage-devel] Re: List condensation

2011-07-31 Thread Francois Bissey
> Hi Francois, > > On 31 Jul., 23:48, Francois Bissey > > wrote: > > You forgot debian-sage > > Indeed. Sorry. > > Actually I attempted completeness; I did some searches, but debian- > sage has not been found. It is another list that had no activity since > Oct. 05, 2010. > > I hope you allow

[sage-devel] Re: List condensation

2011-07-31 Thread Simon King
Hi Francois, On 31 Jul., 23:48, Francois Bissey wrote: > You forgot debian-sage Indeed. Sorry. Actually I attempted completeness; I did some searches, but debian- sage has not been found. It is another list that had no activity since Oct. 05, 2010. I hope you allow a direct question: Did you h