+1! | 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.
I think it helps to migrate the users by putting up a deadline which is the date to set the forum to be read-only alongside with the new users@ message. After that date users can still read previous discussions, but can't post a new one. Evans leerho <[email protected]> 於 2020年2月7日 週五 下午2:36寫道： > Kenn, > Thanks for your suggestion about the alias -- great idea. But how do we > link Slack and StackOverflow to user@ ? I did some searching on Slack to > see if there was some configuration to automatically transcribe the > messages there directly to an Apache mail list, but I could not find any > way to do that. I don't know anything about how StackOverflow works. > > Lee. > > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 8:42 PM Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 - thanks for surfacing the reasoning on the dev@ list. >> >> Regards, >> Dave >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Feb 6, 2020, at 11:24 PM, Kenneth Knowles <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> +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] >>>> >>>>
