[Papervision3D] Reorganisation of the mailing list

[pSK]

Id love to see a separate list where we can talk about 3d modeling  
(mx, maya etc etc) in relation to papervision, but specifically from  
a point of view of us more familiar with flash..

.but then thats probably as i know so little about em...


On 3 Jun 2007, at 17:07, Trevor Burton wrote:

> This is a good suggestion, Hristo - the problem is if the list is  
> split into several different lists people won't use them as they  
> are intended - in theory, yes, it will make things simpler, in  
> practice it won't happen like that. People will post to the wrong  
> list, or post to one, won't get an immediate reply and will post to  
> them all just to make sure.
>
> There's a wiki packed full of information - there's all the svn  
> details on the email confirmation but people are still posting to  
> the list asking for information that's in those resources. If  
> they're not getting used correctly then increasing the number of  
> mailing lists is not, unfortuanately, going to help make things  
> easier.
>
> There have been many requests to move to a bulletin board, despite  
> the fact that there has been a bulletin board for a long time that  
> people haven't been using, Carlos is moving the list archives over  
> to a new one in the hope that people will start to use it.
>
> I completely agree about the problems the list is experiencing,  
> unfortunately, if people aren't going to google before posting to  
> this list then having seperate lists isn't going to do much to  
> help, in my experience.
>
> The solution is to gently, and consistently point people to the new  
> bulletin board and/or the wiki to get it into everyone's heads and  
> bookmarks, then things will start to ease off a little.
>
> personally, i think having to delete a few emails each day is a  
> small price to pay for access to the code that the PV3D team have  
> put together.
>
> T
>
>
> On 6/3/07, Hristo Dachev <tutini at mail.orbitel.bg> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Since I first subscribed for this feed I always thought about  
> writing this
> to you guys. Its just that the list as it is now is completely  
> nightmarish,
> all kinds of questions one on top of the other, tremedous amount of  
> input
> every day, seriously difficult to follow. I'm still here just  
> because I find
> the 5% of useful for me stuff trully useful, but thenagain these 5%  
> are
> quite difficult to dig up.
>
> What I would suggest is for you to split the list into two or three  
> parallel
> lists that would serve different purposes, namely, one to reflect main
> development issues, speed and features, another for suggestions and  
> stuff,
> and another for begginers. So those who are interested in the  
> entire flow
> could subscribe to all of them, whilst I'll just stick to the first  
> one.
>
> Seriously guys, receiving messages like "i first use flash now,  
> really like,
> but where do i put class and how many" is not like what I  
> subscribed for.
>
> Thanks to all of you for your outstanding job on the engine. Keep  
> it up,
> Tuti
>
>
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