On 5/10/05, Mattias J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Kitching wrote: > [snip] > Elliotte Harold wrote: > >I suspect some of the less active lists may be so primarily because few > >people care about those projects enough to wade through all the projects > >they don't care about. Having separate lists might help the smaller > >communities to grow a bit. > > That is a point. The volume of the dev-list might actually make people > reluctant to subscribing to it at all.
On the other hand, I would assert that we commons-dev folks (including me ... I +1'd this too) screwed up when we encouraged the commons-httpclient developers to go form their own list to reduce the traffic on commons-dev. Fortunately for httpclient that wasn't fatal to their community development efforts, but it illustrates one of the intangible benefits of all the Commons projects sharing a common dev and user list ... a primary resource for adding new interested parties is people seeing messages for projects that they weren't originally interested in, but a comment or two piqued their interest. Put another way, a big part of the Apache culture is meritocracy -- and the ability of an individual to figure out how to use mail filters to ignore dev list stuff they don't care about is a useful indicator of cluefulness :-). Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
