Re: [ANN] lua-hiredis 0.1

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 25/03/2011 13:54, Alexander Gladysh wrote:
> > > lua-l is getting high traffic, and checking out other people's
> > > libraries to see what their value
> > > proposition is is time consuming. A few lines about what it does is
> > > useful.
>
> If a reader does not have time to check out other library — he should
> skip it. This is a basic survival rule in the informationally
> oversaturated environment.

Somehow, it is a matter of energy conservation: if the library author cares to paste a few 
lines introducing the targeted core library, it will save the energy of dozen of people 
checking what it is about (and googling if a link isn't even provided, etc.).
:-P

> > > Announcements about "binding to foozit-3", should say what foozit-3 is for, so
> > > readers who've never heard of foozit might realize its what they've always
> > > wanted and never knew existed.
>
> That may be true only if announcement author does bother to bring his
> word to such readers. If a reader is too lazy (or busy) to click a
> link (or google something up) — maybe he is not a target audience for
> the announcement.

I disagree here. Indeed, the reader can be too busy/lazy/uninterested to check, but as 
nicely said, she can miss something she always wanted to have.
Hey, before Roberto presented Lpeg, I had no idea that PEGs existed and how cool they 
were. I am glad I learned that (and I learned lot of things in this mailing list!).

It is a matter of marketing, after all: either the library author wants his library to be 
used by as much people as possible, or he is happy to target only the few people already 
knowing the product...

> The original post above does raise valid points of course, but, IMO,
> it should not be viewed as a some basic netiquette rule to be rudely
> sticked up the nose of every announcement author — or maybe next time
> an author would think twice before announcing something on the list.

I agree. Sometime (often!) I frown when I see a netiquette or convention broken (LUA, 
overquoting, hijacking thread, etc.) but I refrain from commenting, particularly if I have 
nothing else to say...
Otherwise there would be more noise than information in most mailing lists!

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