Thanks, this is really helpful advice. Though, the additional mailing lists suggested in my proposal are really minimal, i.e., I think these are the absolute minimum that is absolutely needed -- though probably not all right now this minute, indeed.
Gj On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 06/10/16 à 10:28, Bertrand Delacretaz a écrit : > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Geertjan Wielenga > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ...Before getting people to come over from the existing mailing lists > to the > >> Apache NetBeans mailing lists, we need to finalize what those mailing > lists > >> are. Comments to my earlier proposal are welcome... > > Agreed. From my mentor point of view only the private (private PPMC > > discussions) and dev (project and technical decision making) lists > > have required roles, others can be created as needed. > > > > So if the other mentors agree I'll defer to the NetBeans community to > > decide which other lists are needed before switching the community > > here. > > Totally make sense. Bertrand bootstrapped the project by creating the > very first mailing lists, up to the PPMC to decide if some other lists > are needed, and to create them. > > A few thing to remember : > - each list will have to be moderated. Don't forget to ask for at least > 3 moderators (from different TZ, covering at least EU and US, ideally > Asia) for each of those lists > - the more lists you have, the more spam you'll get ;-) At some point, > it's an annoyance to have to moderate those spams (even if The ASF spam > system is *REALLY* efficient - we don't receive spam at all. I really > mean it... - you will receive a few moderator requests every day per > mailing list. You just have to ignore them, but you still have to look > at them. > - users are frequently cross-posting (yeah, I now, bad, bad, bad...). It > simply happens, so be prepared to deal with that > - when user aren't cross posting, they post on te wrong mailing list. > The more mailing lists you have, the more you'll get mails on the wrong > mailing lists... > - from time to tim, you will get a mail from an angry user who complain > that he/she receives unsollicited mails. Typically, this is someone who > subscribed to many mailing list, unsibscribed from some of them, but not > all of them. Good luck to manage their un-subscription if you have a lot > of mailing lists ;-) > > I guess you know all that, but just in case... > >
