Who actually "owns" the list? Can we start a FAQ on a wiki somewhere and point to it in the sig that Yahoo applies to all the messages?
-Josh On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Paul Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > *From:* Josh McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 17, 2008 2:25 AM > *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Splitting FlexCoders in smaller, focused > groups > > Define "enterprise" without resorting to some variation of "mo' bettah" > > What about best practices in Flex UI coding? Where do those posts go? > > And who decides what posts go in the "advanced" lists, and what go in the > "101" list? Sounds like an invitation for grumpy nerds to flame noobs and > scare them away from the community... > > I'm not suggesting we don't split the list at all, just that we put some > serious thought into it first. Definitions of what belongs in what group, > and a lot of publicly available information to help people locate the best > list for their question. Maybe have some sort of community vote or > something; we don't want to fracture the community, there's not *that* many > of us yet. > > Personally I think the problems are at the moment best solved by clever > inbox management. > > > +1 > > It would probably help if there was a useful FAQ to point people at. > > For some of the posts, it would probably help if you were a mind reader. > > There's a lot of traffic, but nothing I can't pick > through/ignore/delete/keep. > > I like the one-stop-shop that this list is and I hope we can keep tolerant > of newbies, without list cops pushing them around the lists - no matter how > hopeless rudely the question is put. We were all there once and if nothing > else the list shows we can all learn new things. > > Sometimes those newbie posts refer to something completely unexpected, even > if only in the way they perceive the product. > > Paul > > > > > -Josh > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Anatole Tartakovsky < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> Flexcoders has huge problem. In the last 15 month it is very much >> stagnant in terms of message count and participation. It is not growing and >> dropping members as fast as it gets them. >> >> I believe this group has overgrown the optimal size about a year ago >> and needs to be divided in more focused smaller groups. My mail box get 100+ >> messages a day on all kinds of topic - unless I can spend 30+ minutes that >> day to sort them out it goes directly into garbage can. Most people in the >> company unsubscribed from it 18 month ago. Most of veteran developers I know >> either unsubscribed or stopped looking in this mess greatly diminishing the >> quality of the responses. As a result group mostly host new developers and >> looses most of experienced ones after very short period of time. >> >> Further delay of breaking this group hinders usefulness of the group for >> all of us as now we have significant amount of users that are being forced >> out. I believe it is time to archive flexcoders and branch (12?) targeted >> new user groups >> >> I would like to see people suggesting user subgroups and WiKi topics for >> Flex community site to go with each group - providing best posts in more >> systematic way. >> >> I suggest the following Yahoo groups ( created couple for your >> convenience). >> >> Flex101: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flex101/ >> >> Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> EnterpriseFlex: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/enterpriseflex/ >> >> Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> FlexUI >> FlexDesign >> >> FlexSDK >> FlexDeployment >> >> FlexFlash >> >> FlexFrameworks >> >> FlexBestPractices >> >> EnterpriseFlex: >> >> FlexBlazeDS: >> >> weborb: >> >> Sincerely, >> Anatole Tartakovsky >> Farata Systems >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." > > :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald > :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
