Hi all,
It is not 100% clear to me why we have separate 'derby-user' and 'derby-dev' mailing lists. On our web site, http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_mail.html, we describe the two lists as follows: derby-user: For discussions about how to use Derby. derby-dev: For discussions about development tasks, such as bug fixes, proposed code changes, etc. This is a clear distinction, but I'm not sure it is very beneficial to have such a distinction. In particular, I worry that it divides the Derby community into "users" and "developers", and I think it might be more in the spirit of Open Source to try to eliminate such distinctions, and encourage everyone to think of themselves as simply a member of the Derby community. I'd also like to encourage more people to actively contribute to Derby development. There are not as many active Derby developers as there once were, but I'm hopeful we can find more people who are interested in contributing ideas, techniques, documentation, test cases, and code to Derby. What is your reaction? Do you find it beneficial to maintain the two separate mailing lists? Or do you think it would be an improvement to have only a single mailing list? thanks, bryan
