[asdf-devel] Some points raised

[Robert Goldman]

On 9/24/10 Sep 24 -9:26 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info>
> writes:
> 
>> On 9/24/10 Sep 24 -9:07 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>>> Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info>
>>> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 9/24/10 Sep 24 -3:49 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:

....

>>>>> 2- Lack *-user mailing list and need of subscription for questions. Is
>>>>> there a sufficiently large comunity here and do we want to open the list?
>>>>
>>>> With all due respect, opening a list is pretty much never a good idea.
>>>> It's just asking for spam.  Per my response to the above complainer, I
>>>> think it would be great if there was a help web site that
>>>>
>>>> 1.  Allowed OpenID login --- no need for new accounts
>>>>
>>>> 2.  Served up questions to the interested through email digest and RSS.
>>>>  As a potential question-answerer, I don't have time to log in to such a
>>>> web site.  I would need to have the questions pushed at me.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any such existing software that we could adopt?
>>>
>>> I'm using gmane, and the overhead to subscribe is really minimal: just
>>> reply to a message gmane sends back the first time you post...
>>
>> So should we just set up an asdf-help mailing list?
> 
> For me it would be an easy and good enough solution, yes.

What's the protocol for potential help providers?  How do we scan an
asdf-help group of this type without (1) further clogging our inboxes;
(2) having to explicitly visit a web site?

Is there, e.g., an RSS-based solution so that we might, for example,
glance over recent requests for help while scanning our blog
subscriptions in Google Reader?

best,
r