On May 4, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > Hey Suresh, > > While I have no strong opinion either way on this, in the past, the Apache > sages that mentored my projects > have suggested that having a users list in Incubation is pretty much net zero > value -- just wanted to pass this > along. > > And to be perfectly clear, I'm +1 to have a users mailing list. But wanted > you to know what others have told me > in the past about it during Incubation.
Thanks Chris for chiming in. Can you also please also pass the downsides you were told of having a user list during incubation? On a quick surfing through incubator websites I see very less projects are having user lists but couldn't get why. Suresh > Thanks for listening. > > Cheers, > Chris > > > On May 3, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Suresh Marru wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> As we are getting ready to announce the release and work on subsequent ones >> as well, how about setup a users mailing list? We need to make sure the >> mails get properly discussed though, so we may have to ensure all the PMC >> (~=Committers) are subscribed to the users mailing list as well. >> >> Cheers, >> Suresh > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Senior Computer Scientist > NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 > Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >
