btw, regarding consistency: some projects have a us...@a.o (plural) list, others have u...@a.o (singular). I most certainly take the wrong one whenever I write a mail to some u list ;)
LieGrue, strub --- On Thu, 9/9/10, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com> wrote: > From: James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com> > Subject: Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] > Kitty to Enter the Incubator) > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Date: Thursday, September 9, 2010, 7:33 PM > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Greg > Stein <gst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The formation of your community is a BIG DEAL. Not > something to > > casually sweep under the rug. > > > > Partitioning the community between users and devs > makes it very > > difficult to establish a large, viable, sustainable > community. > > > > If projects arrive at the Incubator with an > already-built user > > community, then sure. Create separate lists. But small > communities > > should (IMO) stick to a single dev@ list until you > can't handle the > > traffic any more. If you started elsewhere with two > lists, but your > > list traffic is still "small", then I would recommend > combining them > > when arriving at the Incubator. > > > > It is obviously a call for each podling to make, so > I'm simply > > recommending that all podlings consider the impact of > dividing your > > community when you ask for separate dev/user lists. I > believe it is > > rarely appropriate. > > > > And I'm all about consistency. Most (if not all, I > haven't checked) > ASF projects have separate user/dev lists. That's > just how we do > things. It's really not that much trouble to have two > different lists > and just subscribe to both (if you're a developer). > That way, > development "stuff" (votes, board reports, etc.) doesn't > bleed over > onto the user lists. I've always subscribed to both > lists for every > project I'm on. If users are interested in the > development goings-on, > then they can subscribe to the dev list. Some folks, > like us > "mentors", might not be interested in user issues, because > we're > really not necessarily capable of answering the > questions. I don't > want that junk in my inbox (or label/folder). > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
