Well, we could neglect to tell anyone about the user list until we need it.
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Dan Haywood <dkhayw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Isis mentors: > Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should > we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined mailing list for -dev > and -user? > Dan > > > On 08/09/2010 08:10, Martijn Dashorst wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Stein<gst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacks<matt...@matthewsacks.com >>> >wrote: >>> >>>> ... >>>> *Mailing Lists* >>>> >>>> kitty-dev >>>> kitty-commits >>>> kitty-user >>>> >>>> Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the >>> community across dev/user does not make sense. You want to keep the users >>> and developers on the same mailing list until one starts to overwhelm the >>> other. By partitioning the lists too early, you risk never reaching >>> "critical mass" on *either* mailing list. >>> >> This is actually great advice, and I wish we'd done this with a couple >> of podlings that are currently too small to graduate. >> >> In retrospect empire-db and etch really could have done without the >> user- list IMO. >> >> Martijn >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >
