It wasn't my intention to insult people, but my experience has shown
that people are more likely to react to direct statements. So I
apologize to those that felt insulted.
My use of the word SPAM was meant with respect to the amount messages
received and the fact that they are of no interest to me, just like SPAM
is. I am and have been on a number of mailing lists but not one has
managed to send 29 messages about commits in only ONE minute.
My use of the word professional was meant with respect to merging the
lists without asking the people affect beforehand (there was at least
nothing on the XML-RPC list) and after a couple of days asking if it was
a mistake and when people answer that is was ignore that.
Sagara, no, not redoing the change but undo the change, or at least
remove the XML-RPC list from the merger.
I assumed that the mailing lists were intended to serve as communication
channels among people involved. The flood of unsubscribes should have
shown that people aren't very happy about this merger and every
unsubscribe means one less possible contributer. To me it sounded like
there was a lack of contributers and how many contributers do you think
you will get by having them bombarded with messages?
On 04-11-2010 09:26, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Daniel Kulp<[email protected]> wrote:
The BEST model to look at is the commons project at Apache. They have a very
diverse set of sub projects and have been very successful at being able to
provide adequate oversight on all the projects. How do they do it: they
MANDATE that there are not separate dev lists for each project.
It is also the best example of a mailing list with an extremely bad
ratio between noise and content, at least for me.
If the traffic about a particulare subproject grows enough to overwelm the
rest of the projects, that's usually a sign that it's ready to spin out.
Thus, if you don't like it, start participating with XML-RPC, submit patches,
foster ideas, etc.... and help it grow to a point where it's ready to
graduate.
XML-RPC is most likely not a project which will grow. It is in
maintenance mode and has been just that for a couple of years. It is
extremely unlikely that you have a chance to attract interest for the
ws project under its contributors / users, unless they move their
professional interest, which would be an event unrelated to either
projects.
Jochen
