>Hi,
>At the moment dev.performance is a little used list that overlaps with
>dev.platform. Important recent posts made on dev.performance, have been a
>mistake (eg. threads by Messrs. Jesup and Mandelin). So in order to not
>risk further lost threads I propose we shutdown this mailing list and move
>all of the future discussion to dev.platform.
My mistake was cross-posting it to .platform... :-)
>Any objections?
>
>Rob Helmer, the sole regular user of the list doesn't have any objections,
>anybody else?
Actually, I do object. The most interesting discussions from my posting
came in .performance, and quite honestly I'd have preferred for all
discussion of it to have been there - I was just worried that perhaps no one
was monitoring it, as I'd been away for a while, and wanted to 'ping'
people in platform to look here. Unfortunately, various people's
newsreaders (or people purposely) sent replies to .platform instead of
honoring the Followups-To. (Thunderbird bug, perhaps?)
m.d.platform is already an over-full group with insufficient breakout
IMHO - it gets overwhelmed occasionally by stuff like B2G. Part of the
problem may be that people have moved away from "traditional"
newsreaders.
Bugs aren't a great place for discussion. Newsgroups are (and I'd love
more broken-out specialization); or the modern equivalent to newsgroups
(web forums, though for many uses I prefer newsgroups to web forums, not
the least of which is that *I* get to decide what my interface and
editor is).
For example, I'd love a newsgroup for media stuff. Low volume isn't a
problem in a newsgroup; unlike web forums you don't have to actively
check them (RSS can help with that on web forums of course, but that's
more setup hassle for the user).
As perf has always been a strong interest of mine, I was hoping to spark
some useful discussions here and make them findable in the future (while
in platform they'd rapidly be lost in the chatter).
That's my opinion, anyways.
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Randell Jesup, Mozilla Corp
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