Perhaps we should go the full distance and create @issues, @user and segregate them. However, It is important that dev subscribes to both of them, otherwise risk of not responding to user queries is high.
Regards Srikanth Sundarrajan > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:35:56 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Back in the business, user mailing list ? > > I think the Apache suggestion is to combine them at first because most users > are also devs and because it's useful to the devs to know what users are > asking about. > I don't know that there's enough purely user discussion on the existing list > to make a separate list worthwhile. The vast bulk of the existing traffic is > from JIRA updates and commits, rather than discussion and how-to kinds of > questions. > On the other hand, having a separate list might encourage more of that kind > of discussion and make the user-oriented discussion and answers more visible > to people who aren't engaged in the source base. > I think the nature of the traffic on the existing lists discourages new > people from getting involved, so the lack of a users@ list may be a barrier > to adoption of the project. > scott > > On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 4:43 AM, Srikanth Sundarrajan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I dont have a strong opinion on user@ mailing list, but we avoided creating > one during incubation due to recommendations below. I dont know what the > threshold is when @user becomes necessary. Looks like there are enough folks > feeling that it is necessary now. May be we can file an Infra ticket to > create it. > > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/MailingListOptions > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html#template-mailing-lists > > Regards > Srikanth Sundarrajan > > > From: [email protected] > > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:19:55 +0530 > > Subject: Re: Back in the business, user mailing list ? > > To: [email protected] > > > > I think we should. It will be easy to filter and give due importance to > > usage questions and help users on priority. Another reason is that the > > users by default look for users list to ask for usage questions, not having > > one can be confusing for them. It will also make easier for users to search > > for existing usage questions and even subscribe to it without being dumped > > with all the JIRA updates. If there are no disadvantages to bifurcating the > > mailing lists then I believe we shouldn't wait for the community to be > > large to ensure this discipline. > > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Srikanth Sundarrajan <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > At this time, the community is still small. Do we really want to bifurcate > > > the mailing list ? > > > > > > Regards > > > Srikanth Sundarrajan > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:16:02 +0530 > > > > Subject: Re: Back in the business, user mailing list ? > > > > From: [email protected] > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > > > > Some thoughts on user mailing list : > > > > > > > > Trying to put what should go in user mailing list and what not (started > > > > doing this nowdays) > > > > > > > > What should go > > > > > > > > - A question from user - regarding usage? > > > > - Announcements to users - new feature/new release and etc. > > > > - Not sure people will only subscribe to user list and not dev list. > > > If > > > > there are people, I'm thinking they will mostly interested in > > > > announcements > > > > on what is happening. > > > > - The main use of user mailing list would to separate out user > > > > discussions and development discussions, assuming jira related > > > updates are > > > > put in proper filters. > > > > > > > > What should not go > > > > > > > > - Jenkins updates > > > > - Jira updates > > > > - Reviw board updates > > > > > > > > One challenge we always see is to find where should a post from user > > > should > > > > go - whether to user list or dev list and redirect them accordingly. > > > > > > > > Overall, +1 for user mailing list - useful when project becomes big and > > > > there are many users. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Amareshwari > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré > > > > <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > After a couple of crazy months (due to a bunch of customer > > > engagements), > > > > > I'm now back in the business and happy to be back on Falcon > > > contribution \o/ > > > > > > > > > > By the way, now that Falcon is TLP, what do you think: > > > > > 1/ create an user mailing list ? > > > > > 2/ "normally", we use to promote all PPMC/Mentor/IPMC involved during > > > the > > > > > incubation to be PMC on the project (at least we ask if they want to > > > be). > > > > > WDYT ? > > > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > JB > > > > > -- > > > > > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > http://blog.nanthrax.net > > > > > Talend - http://www.talend.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
