That's a good point, but I think we have to consider the value of the individual lists as well. There are some that aren't going to get much traffic no matter how clear we make it. We should also consider that most projects (that I'm aware of anyways) don't maintain several lists like we do, so many people coming to ZF for the first time are looking for that one-stop list that they're used to in other projects. In the end, we'll always see traffic on general that might fit in a more specific list. The only way to avoid this would be to get rid of general entirely, which I hope we'd all agree is not a particularly good direction to go in.
If we had- say- general, db, mvc, auth, and maybe announcements for the people who want to know about releases but not belong to a full-fledged release, I think it would be pretty clear which list to post to for the best results. Plus, if we can figure out how to avoid sending duplicate mails, we could always keep the lists around and just forward the mails appropriately in case we find that we'd like to resurrect one of them later. ,Wil From: Jack Sleight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 11:55 AM Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [fw-general] Project Teams and Separate Mailing Lists. . . Gunter Sammet wrote: He just suggested that we could remove a few that don't generate traffic. Question is, are they getting little traffic because no one is talking about the components they cover, or because everyone is posting to fw-general? If it's the latter then I think we should put more emphasis on people posting to the right list, and make it clear that the general list is only for topics not covered elsewhere. One problem I've found is that the mailing lists page does not actually list the exact components covered by each list, leaving someone new to ZF unsure of the best place to post, usually leading to a post in fw-general. I think there is value in keeping separate lists for each area, but we just need to encourage people to post to the right place. We also need to fix the fw-all list, as that may be another reason people only post to the general, mvc and db (in case they don't receive any responses). -- Jack
