Re: Scheme Review bootstrapped
Lassi Kortela 02 Dec 2022 18:39 UTC
Thanks again for the comments.
> It's good start, but I was expecting something more informal. Right now it's
> little bit less informal as SRFI but still you need to have document in
> specific format, and you have a proces that you need to follow if you
> want take part in discussion.
We already have lots of Scheme forums that are more informal:
- Reddit, comp.lang.scheme, mailing lists, IRC
- Racket Slack and mailing list
- The Planet Scheme blog aggregator
- The Scheme Cookbook
- Every Scheme GitHub project, including https://github.com/pre-srfi
- Most Scheme package managers (Snow, Akku, ...)
If Scheme Review was more informal, how would it differ from what we
already have?
> It would probably be hard for people to jump and
> comments. As you can see SRFI people comment on the mailing list and I think
> that if this will be not as easy as Reddit people will not use it.
It sounds like you're looking for https://github.com/pre-srfi
(That organization exists to write documents that are hoped to become
SRFIs, but nobody actually enforces that constraint.)
I'd like to preserve the quality of comments we get on the SRFI lists.
I'm not sure if making it as easy as Reddit is the best way to achieve
that. A small barrier to entry may be desirable.
> Just a tip: why don't you write the question what people think about this
> on Reddit instead of maling list, there is limited number of people in
> mailing list. Right now most people will have no idea that something like
> this exist and it will be really hard to them to find out.
>
> In current word you need to market your ideas if you want them to spread.
I've tried hard to stay off Reddit for several reasons, but I'll
consider it.
RE: commercial platform, git hosting is completely dominated by GitHub.
Even GitLab.com has almost no "social life" - the repos have almost no
stars compared to GitHub.
I'd rather have a quality group than a large group, but it's true that a
balance has to be struck.