Committers obviously need to have oversight of everything - wiki, bugs, commits and posted messages, but thats a limited number of us and easy to ensure that we're fully subscribed up to everything.
For other community members Jive is excellent and I think this is a great addition to support community participation. People who don't want to be permanently subscribed and receieve all the emails can pop in and out posting on an adhoc basis. > I offer two suggestions, either is perfectly fine > with me. Any other suggestions that provide more > alternatives are also of course welcome: > > 1) Why not create a simple web-based form to manage > all the lists. By default, all 5, 6, or 7 lists are > checked when the user clicks the "subscribe" button, > but each list can be independently subscribed and > unsubscribed. You can even set the Reply-To header > for some of the lists (bugs, wiki, etc) to point back > to the dev@ list. > and/or > > 2) Using a Forums-based approach and different > mailing lists for each type of content (wiki@, dev@, > bug@, etc), create a single Struts category with > several sub-forms that sync to the lists. Now users > can search the Struts category and get a unified > archive. > > Thoughts? I understand that this does involve some > work, and for those of you who are quite happy with > how things are now, it may seem like a waste of time. > As such, I'm more than willing to do the actual work > for any proposed solution. I like both these ideas +1 from me. Niall > Patrick --------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted via Jive Forums http://forums.opensymphony.com/thread.jspa?threadID=14616&messageID=29031#29031 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
