For the transition: You could add an auto reply to the Google Group with a convenient link to mailto:[email protected] and leave the group for a while, or indefinitely.
>From experience, I think Lee is right: many people are shy about writing to dev@ even when they are well-qualified and have very clear and good questions to contribute. TBH they are also shy about writing to user@ in many cases. Users show up in Slack and StackOverflow too. Worth considering how to tie these together to include all these different sorts of users. But I am also on the side of establishing a user@ mailing list early. For Beam, it has always had much less traffic (recently dev@ was 5x user@) but still is a valuable resource for those who use it. If consensus becomes apparent, a mentor can set up user@/users@ (definitely go with an alias for both here). Kenn On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 1:39 PM Eric Bax <[email protected]> wrote: > Approve > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS> > > On Thursday, February 6, 2020, 10:22 AM, leerho <[email protected]> wrote: > > Folks, > > This is a call for a vote on the following: > > I propose that we deprecate the Google Groups > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sketches-user> forum and direct > users to a newly created users@ email list. > > The steps would be as follows: > > 1. Create a new [email protected] email list. > 2. Clearly mark the existing Google Groups site as deprecated and > direct users to the new list. > 3. Update all references to the Google Groups site on our web site and > repository READMEs to the new list. > > This vote will be performed in one stage: > - This letter will be published on dev@ and remain open for at least > 72 hours and at least 3 (+1) PPMC votes or a majority of (+1) are acquired. > All PPMC members including Mentors can vote. > > Please vote accordingly: > > [ ] +1 approve > [ ] +0 no opinion > [ ] -1 disapprove with the reason > > Thanks, > Lee Rhodes > [email protected] > >
