Re: Shutting down dev.performance

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Randell Jesup <[email protected]> wrote:
> m.d.platform is already an over-full group with insufficient breakout
> IMHO - it gets overwhelmed occasionally by stuff like B2G.

We created a list for b2g to solve that; apologies for not doing that
sooner, it was certainly pretty disruptive for other platform
conversations.

I don't think it makes sense to split performance out into a separate
area of discussion.  It's not really a separable concern: it needs to
be part of how we think of everything we do, and improvements in it
will always involve one or more other domains.  Similarly with
security.

It might be that performance tools could be in another group, but I
think they're low enough volume that it's not worth adding another
channel to monitor or find, and also the audience for those tools is
everyone, so other than really specific architectural issues it's
going to want lots of platform feedback anyway.

> For example, I'd love a newsgroup for media stuff. =A0Low 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).

I think a media list makes more sense, since it's a vertical rather
than horizontal area of work.

Mike