In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin van den Bemt writes: >The strength of this list should be is that with a lot of hands the chance tha >t nothing happens when >there is activity is minimized. If someone has an hour to spare, it could very > well be useful to >apply a patch and mentor people.
Vadim has regexp covered and I have oro covered as far as maintenance requests go, but no, I don't think either project merits its own separate -dev and -user lists anymore. The trick is getting users who want new features (as opposed to maintenance like bug fixing) to contribute new features instead of always expecting the maintainers to add them (e.g., Commons Net has been pretty successful in attracting user contributed features). But regexp and oro are special cases which will likely see no new features in the future, having been rendered obsolete by standardization of the functionality they provide in the Java core api. >Since I don't like to extend the scope of the general list, I prefer dev discu >ssion not to take >place there. > >Thoughts ? As long as user traffic can go to general, it sounds okay. Most, if not all, activity will be triggered by users (who won't be subscribed to dev), so I'd think at least some threads should be permitted to start on general and then migrate to dev if there is follow-on development related discussion. daniel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
