I'm one of those ordinary users on mailing lists for other projects, and to me it's not a point of irritation seeing the developers at work. Rather, I enjoy it. Of course, I must allow that our users may not all feel the way I do.
Justin On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Steve Huston <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree that the qpid and proton users should be on the same list. Also, it's > useful for much of the development info to be open to the users list. My only > concern for a second list is for things that committers may need to talk > about but which the larger user community doesn't care about. For example, > "who broke the build" or questions/issues about the release process, etc. > > -Steve > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Gordon Sim [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 12:21 PM >> To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: mailing lists and fragmented communication >> >> I believe that we have too many mailing lists and that we are missing out on >> valuable collaboration and transparency as a result. >> >> Too often in the past topics have been discussed on the dev list without >> reflecting any of the discussion back to the user list, keeping a large part >> of >> the community in the dark. Now that we have a distinct list for proton there >> is the possibility of yet more fragmentation. >> >> I honestly believe that we would be better off with just one list for >> discussions. I think there will increasingly be issues that cross-cut >> different >> components or that would benefit from wider participation. Not all topics >> will >> be of interest to all subscribers, but that is always going to be the case. >> >> It doesn't seem to me like any of the lists are so high in volume that this >> would cause significant problems. More rigorous use of subject could help >> people filter if needed. (JIRA and commit notices I think do warrant their >> own >> lists allowing a lot of the 'noise' to be avoided if so desired). >> >> Any other thoughts on this? Does anyone have fears of being deluged with >> unwanted emails? >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional >> commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
