+1 to the proposal On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 8:22 PM Kenneth Knowles <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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] >> >>
