Hi

I often have Emacs+Perl related questions and advices which seem somehow misplaced at SoPW.

Did the gods ever think about a dedicated board for "Development" issues?

Emacs people could flag them with a leading [emacs] in the title, others with [vi], [padre], [eclipse] or [komodo]

There could also be subjects like [git], [svn], [hq] and so on for revision control.

As a further/alternative suggestion the "Filtered Node" feature of RAT could be extended to filter on title-substrings like  /ignore does for the CB if you don't wanna special board for these issues.

As a side effect this should help limiting the DB queries and "clashes of civilizations"¹ could be easily avoided.

Cheers Rolf

UPDATE:

¹) like GNU-Elois vs VIMorlocks ;)

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Re: New Board for "Development/Environmental" ?
by jdporter (Paladin) on Apr 21, 2010 at 16:09 UTC

    Anonymous Monk is absolutely right. What you want to talk about is not off topic for SoPW. At least it involves Perl! If it was more off topic than that, you (or a janitor) could put "(OT)" in the title.

    What is the sound of Windows? Is it not the sound of a wall upon which people have smashed their heads... all the way through?
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      For sake of completeness, that also includes the same sort of topics for Meditations, too, right? The difference being the type of discourse, as in questions in SoPW and answers/musings/RFCs or... well, meditations... in Meditations?

      My first thought was "What's a good mode for coding in Perl and where can I get it?" type questions would be great for SoPW, while "Hey, I have this great .vimrc for Perl coders, take a look!" type statements and related discussion would be more a Meditations node. That is, that a question specifically would go into SoPW and a statement would go into Meditations.

      I vaguely include rhetorical questions with statements, as they're really acting more as statements anyway. I'd also, personally, consider a node which consists of a statement which is providing illumination on a point (rather than asking for clarification for the poster) with a quick follow-up discussion question such as "has this been done better?" or "what do you monks think?" as a statement post, and put that in Meditations rather than SoPW. RFCs for tutorials and modules fit this statement-with-short-follow-up-question mold and are typically Meditations.

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Re: New Board for "Development/Environmental" ?
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 21, 2010 at 12:17 UTC
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      a) this doesn't answer the filter suggestion!

      b) emacs customization includes (large) chunks of elisp which will most certainly attract people blaming offtopicnes and starting considerations.

      c) "Development" is a much broader suggestion than most of what is listed in the linked FAQ.

      Cheers Rolf

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        a) this doesn't answer the filter suggestion!

        Great reading comprehension!

        b) emacs customization includes (large) chunks of elisp which will most certainly attract people blaming offtopicnes and starting considerations.

        Not a big deal.

        c) "Development" is a much broader suggestion than most what is listed in the linked FAQ.

        That doesn't important.

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