Hi, On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Martin Heidegger <m...@leichtgewicht.at> wrote: > On 13/02/2012 19:01, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >> >> I disagree - busy mailing lists are good if well managed. > > I have not too much experience with good management of mailing-lists. Is > there some good article/thing to read about that?
the one I posted to previously, at http://grep.codeconsult.ch/2011/12/06/stefanos-mazzocchis-busy-list-pattern/ (it's my blog - as I said, shameless but IMO useful plug) >> Using [translation], [testing] and similar tags in message subjects... > Do you think it would be good to predefine such tags in order for other > people to not confuse them? > A definition would be a lot like a own mailing list (for example one could > pre-set filters in his mail client of choice)... you could predefine some but they usually evolve as soon as people see a pattern. There are some proposals at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Getting+Started already. >> As for people in charge, the PPMC is in charge of such things, and if >> only a subset of it is interested in translations, for example, >> getting votes for those people, while others abstain, > > How does that work? In what time span can a PPMC member intercept? Is one > PPMC that raises its voice enough? > What if no PPMC raises its voice?.. The best is to reach consensus without a vote, people agree and commit code (or translations, whatever) that they find good. Any committer can then veto that code, with justification. For topics that need a vote, the rules at http://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html apply. It's quite easy to have informal sub-groups who each take care of different modules in that way, without requiring specific organization. -Bertrand
