On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 10:47:52PM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote: > On Sun, 12 May 2002, Aaron Bannert wrote: > > > > Well, this is very promising. The first thing we'd really like is a > > > mailing list. What's the SOP for getting one created? Or is there > > > something else that needs to happen before that can be done? > > > > > > I figure we should get moving while we're motivated, before real life > > > intrudes. > > > > Should we make this part of the Docs project, and then if it starts > > generating enough traffic it can be moved to its own list? > > There are two reasons I did not want this to happen. > > First, we want this to be larger than just the httpd project, and want > other projects to be included even from the start. Of course, the fact > that this entire discussion has happened on @httpd.apache.org lists does > not help that argument any.
And it's not closely related to the current development of Apache (Oh yes it is! But we're putting this into the history-"book"). > Secondly, since I'm a history nut, as I have already illustrated, it > seeme beneficial to have this discussion happen in an environment > un-commingled with other stuff, so that it is easy to see which is > which. And so we generate too much off topic-ness. > This seemed to also be Thomas' opinion when we discussed it on IRC a > little while ago. Perhaps he can chime in - I think he's on this list. Yes, you pretty much laid my opinion out on the table in your mail :) > I'm not sure how much traffic this will ever generate, as it is largely > an effort of archaelogy, not a creative process, per se. (Sounds here > like I'm waffling a little. Dunno.) We need some forum in which to > discuss what needs to get done, and have it archived. Apart from that, I > suppose I'm not terribly concerned. Traffic is likely to happen in bursts and might get lost in all the other discussion that goes on here on dev@. Right now we're still brainstorming on which kind of information we'd like to see in the history project and it would benefit having a seperate mailinglist for that. -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer> <http://photos.eibner.dk/> !(C)<http://copywrong.dk/> <http://apachegallery.dk/> Putting the HEST in .COM <http://www.hestdesign.com/>
