There's a welcome mail? ;) Email overload is a general problem; the [foo] helps a bit but there has to be a time at which all being on the same list doesn't scale. Are commons-dev and commons-user fine currently? What if we fold all of the other Jakarta projects into them. Still fine?
And yet there are huge benefits to sharing a list. Commons is all about huge crossover between tiny communities - but when does it go from being a constructive town meeting to becoming a bedlam of noise. Putting each component on its own -dev list would be death - so we obviously need a different solution there. However, it'd be interesting to hear what people think about the benefits of the -user list being shared. I see a few possibles: * Easy for users. They're not having to hunt down which mailing list a component is on - which will cause the kind of "sorry, please goto list such and such" redirects we often have to do on [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Not having a constant stream of mail list requests (and mail list removal requests). * Easier place to search (not that we make it that easy to search the lists). I'm not sure I'm convinced by any of them :) I'm also interested in whether a forum interface (working as a facade for the mailing list) would help. How are people finding nabble and gmane? Hopefully no one minds this navel-gazing; I'm always happy to reopen old discussions to see if the consensus has changed. Hen On 2/7/06, Martin van den Bemt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you (and preferrably others too) confirm that you actually read the > (automated) welcome mail ? > I never read them and my impression is that a lot of people don't read it. > > Mvgr, > Martin > > Hal Hildebrand wrote: > > It'd probably help if this policy was clearly spelled out in a welcome > > message from the list. > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Boris Unckel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >>Good Morning, > >> > >>Don Seiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >>>I was wondering earlier if it doesn't make sense to create individual > >>>user lists for the components? Speaking from personal experience, I'm > >>>currently only interested in commons-net, and things like validator I > >>>could do without. > >> > >>this is an old discussion (have a look at the archives). This was not my > >>point. As long as there is _one_ list and majority votes to have one list > >>people should respect that easy, understandable policy. > >> > >>Regards > >>Boris > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
