Hi, Good thing to change the group name. For the description, another wording could be:
Discussion group for contributing to the Django source code and documentation. Here we discuss new features and updates of the Django project. Wim On Tuesday, 9 September 2014 10:52:09 UTC+2, Robert Grant wrote: > > Totally agree Daniele. I don't know how other people experience the group, > but I actually didn't see the email address, and didn't even look at the > URL. If we can find where the email is exposed (say on a website) and > change things to hide it as much as possible, e.g.: > > Instead of : Email the Django Contributors group here: > [email protected] <javascript:> > Say : Email the Django Contributors group <javascript:>. > > That might help. Maybe a note in the description to say that for > historical reasons, if you want to email a new topic to the group the email > address is [email protected] <javascript:>? > > On Tuesday, 9 September 2014 10:03:45 UTC+2, Daniele Procida wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014, Russell Keith-Magee <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >As a matter of formality, I'd like to put this through the technical >> board >> >so that it isn't just a fiat decision by the handful of people motivated >> to >> >participate in this discussion. >> >> By the way, there are three related pieces of information (in Manage > >> Information > General information): >> >> Group name: Django developers >> >> Group email address: django-developers (can't be changed) >> >> Group description: Discussion group for Django developers. This group is >> used for discussion of developing Django itself, not user questions; Please >> use django-users for issues regarding using the framework, questions for >> the Django user community outreach, etc. >> >> >> The description's the easy one, but I don't think it's going to make a >> huge amount of difference. I doubt it's what catches people's attention. >> I'd suggest something shorter like: >> >> Discussion group for the development of Django and contribution to >> the >> project. For questions about and help with Django, please use >> django-users. >> >> The group name is the problematic one. If it matches the email address; >> it's misleading; if it doesn't, it's confusing. >> >> Daniele >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/bf7ba047-d45f-49f1-9a16-ac4b54423894%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
