-1 However, it's true that Apache product users often consider themselves developer and thus post on the developer forum even when their question should really be on the user list. We could probably reduce such occurrences a little by adding a clearer explanation of the purpose of each list on the mailing page.
Regards, ~ Simon On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Paul Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew, > > The dev@ mailing list is described on the Jakarts site[1] as: > The "Developer" lists where you can send questions and comments about > the actual software source code and general "development" types of > questions. > > Making the developer list private is extreme and I would resist this > change. Their are many productive discussion on the developer list that > include non-committers or non-pmc members. > > Are the posting to the developer list because the question is not answered > on the user list? If so, then lets address this problem first. If not, > then should the response to an user@ post on the dev@ list be something > like "You have posted this to the wrong list, please repost this on the > user@ list" > > The dev@ mailing list is described on the Jakarts site[1] as: > The "Developer" lists where you can send questions and comments about > the actual software source code and general "development" types of > questions. > > Making the developer list private is extreme. Their are many discussion on > the developer list that include non-committers or non-pmc members. > > > Paul Spencer > > [1]http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html > > > > Andrew Robinson wrote: > >> Is it possible to make dev@ a private mailing list, so only commiters >> and people that PMCs decide should have access to post are allowed to >> send emails to this list? That way we can reduce the accidental >> posting to dev@ instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> -Andrew >> >> >
