Is there any way to just preserve the current google group and it's members, but transfer ownership and "official" status?
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 14:01, Jeff Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm happy to create our own google group for discussion/Q&A if I can get 4 > others to agree this is warranted (me being one, I guess Justin you are a > second?) > > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Justin Houk <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I agree with Jeff. FWIW, I find the SO community to be micromanaging, >> pedantic, and downright annoying to try to interact with. Which, I guess, >> is why I'm here and not there. >> >> On the other hand, I guess it shows how little Heroku takes this list >> seriously that we hear about this announcement from the newsletter and not >> here? The community does lose some value without a certain level of >> interest and support from Heroku proper. >> >> --Justin >> >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Jeff Schmitz >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I agree. >>> >>> Stack Overflow is completely different from a mailing list. Here >>> discussion is encouraged. There, it is penalized and can be edited or >>> deleted. >>> >>> I suppose we can create our own google group? >>> >>> jeff >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:28 PM, David Whatley <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> For the record, this is the way I keep abreast of all the heroku things. >>>> Doing away with it is sheer madness. The sort of bad decisionss I saw >>>> coming the sad day Salesforce came into the picture. I warned them... This >>>> is going to change you no matter what they say. And it has. >>>> >>>> David >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPad >>>> >>>> On Apr 25, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Neil Middleton <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> In order to play devils advocate here (I'm not saying if I'm on one side >>>> of the fence or the other): >>>> >>>> 1) The group isn't a great archive for problems as the specific problems >>>> tend to be buried in email threads. >>>> 2) For a lot of the problems on here, support.heroku.com is probably the >>>> best place to go. >>>> 3) The StackOverflow tag on SO is remarkably active: >>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/heroku >>>> 3) Google have already done this with some success: >>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/google-appengine/Z6XN_64cA7w >>>> >>>> >>>> Neil >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, 25 April 2012 at 18:12, Alex Chaffee wrote: >>>> >>>> fIn the latest Heroku Newsletter[1], it says this group will be killed >>>> at the end of April, and suggests instead to go to support.heroku.com >>>> (which is private) or stackoverflow.com. While SO is awesome, is it >>>> really an adequate replacement for this group? I've found that SO is a >>>> great complement to mailing lists but doesn't allow for the same kind >>>> of deep discussion and community building. Worse, it requires active >>>> attention rather than arriving in one's inbox, so the people who are >>>> most likely to have an answer to a question are the least likely to >>>> hear it -- since they're not having any problems. >>>> >>>> Why uproot a productive community (this mailing list) and hope that it >>>> migrates to a new place with a radically different interaction model? >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> http://lists.heroku.com/t/ViewEmail/r/6DFC781E555FD71E/CEC5941F8B0A6F4BC5EC08CADFFC107B >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Alex Chaffee - [email protected] >>>> http://alexchaffee.com >>>> http://twitter.com/alexch >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Heroku" group. >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected] >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Heroku" group. >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected] >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Heroku" group. >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected] >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Heroku" group. >>> >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Justin Houk >> Co-Founder, 10x10 Room >> http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=6055184 >> http://10x10room.com >> http://playconclave.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Heroku" group. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Heroku" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. 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