# Ruby-doc mailing list?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-doc-mailing-list/57285>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 9, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-doc-mailing-list/57285 "2006-04-09T00:40:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![sumwutdum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@sumwutdum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sumwutdum)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-doc-mailing-list/57285/1 "2006-04-09T00:40:00Z")

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Is anyone successfully using the ruby-doc mailing list? In the last  
couple weeks I have received a single message from it, an unsubscribe  
request, and my own post to it did not come back to me (unlike my  
posts to ruby-core and ruby-talk).

Is ruby-doc dead? Or is it some problem particular to me?

Thanks,  
c.

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**Author:** ![sumwutdum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@sumwutdum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sumwutdum)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-doc-mailing-list/57285/2 "2006-04-09T03:26:18Z")

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Chris A. wrote:

> Is anyone successfully using the ruby-doc mailing list? In the last  
> couple weeks I have received a single message from it, an unsubscribe  
> request, and my own post to it did not come back to me (unlike my  
> posts to ruby-core and ruby-talk).
> 
> Is ruby-doc dead? Or is it some problem particular to me?

It’s just slow.

There are people actively working on improving the docs. They either  
have CVS commit rights, or post the changes to ruby-core to get them  
committed. The list traffic is not indicative of the actual productive  
work going on; there just isn’t all that much people need to discuss on  
the list.

–  
James B.

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally  
for machines to execute.”

- H. Abelson and G. Sussman  
(in "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)

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**Author:** ![sumwutdum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@sumwutdum](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sumwutdum)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-doc-mailing-list/57285/3 "2006-04-09T16:45:25Z")

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Thanks! I see the doc activity on ruby-core and ruby-cvs.