I'll risk... What prompted me to chime-in was the tone of the initial response; it didn't sound very friendly. I can appreciate the need to keep conversations focused... but frankly, I felt a little bad for the person that posted the message.
Please consider the following as an alternative response... begin -----> Thanks for the [ question / comment ] [ person name ]; feedback from the community is the life-blood of open source software! We're typically in a 'heads-down' mode on this list... and try to keep topics focused on issues related to [ active development, our next release, the build, ham sandwiches, etc. ]. I'm not sure how much traction your [ question / comment ] will gain here. I've taken the liberty of forwarding your [ question / comment ] to the flex-users mailing list which is moderated by [ your friendly moderators here ]. Subscription information is available [ at this link ]. [ some sort of chipper tagline ] end -----> So... to carry Doug's comment a little further - it might be a good idea for the PPMC to assign, volunteer, or otherwise find a few personable moderators for the Flex users list. A few warm bodies ( moderators ) and some gentle guidance ( email traffic management ) would be a great way to insulate flex-dev from distracting topics / comments / questions. R On Monday, June 18, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Doug McCune wrote: > > This is a fairly high-traffic list. > > > This has come up in many people's discussions over the past few days. It used > to be true, it's not anymore [1]. For better or worse, the mailing list > activity has died down incredibly. If you are using an email client that > groups by thread, there are *very* few topics being discussed at the moment. > I count a total of 34 threads being discussed in the last week. That's not to > say that 34 conversations isn't a decent bunch, but it takes all of about 30 > seconds to scan the headlines for an entire week of content and figure out if > any of it is interesting to you. > > And then of course there's the flex-users list, which has never been used, as > in not a single message [2]. I think getting flex-users going would be great, > but let's be honest about the fact that this is the *only* active Apache Flex > list/forum/whatever at the moment. Telling people to go post their topics in > the echoing silence of the flex-users list, which for all intents and > purposes isn't alive, seems a bit silly. > > So yes, by all means let's get the Flex uses list going, but in the meantime, > given the declining traffic on this list, the stalled progress of the project > as a whole, and the fact that nearly all the current discussion is focused on > infrastructure/build stuff, does it really do so much harm to have a few > extra conversations here? > > [1] see attachment > [2] http://markmail.org/search/+list:org.apache.incubator.flex-users > > >
