Re: [OctDev] On the union of two communities - The GNU Octave atmosphere

[lukshuntim]

On 09/19/2012 06:45 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Júlio Hoffimann
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> No advances here? We'll stay broken in two pieces?
>>
>> Ok, that's sad.
> 
> Julio,
> 
> I do not feel there are two communities. Join us in the next OctConf
> and you will see it for yourself.
> What you may be feeling is activity distribution self-organized by
> expertise. There are people who are good and enjoy doing low-level
> development (or general GNU Octave) like Rik, Daniel, John, Jordi, etc
> (along etc!) and there are others who are more into the domain/field
> specific code, me, Carlo, Carnë, Lukas, and many more. Of course most
> of these participate in both sides.
> 
> The communication between the two groups is quite fluid. Besides we
> are bringing together Agora (former Octave-Forge) and core, with the
> website development. What exactly is what you find fragmented?
> 
> Cheers
> 

>From the perspective of a user, I don't see any gap between the two
groups, if there are really two groups. :-)

One more observation from the point of view of a user seeking help.
While the separation of core (interpreter + basic things) and packages
(applications) for development makes sense, it's not that easy or clear
for a (newbie) user to know which list (octave-help or oct-dev) to go to
for help. There's in fact a lot of help content in the oct-dev list.
Maybe this aspect (of oct-dev) can be merged with the main octave-help,
that is, one octave-user (or whatever is a better name) list?

Just my 2 cents,
ST
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