I tend just to lurk so I don't know how much value I would add to a new group, but I would sign up if one was created. I agree that if there were some way to keep the existing group around rather than require current users to sign up for a new group, that would be optimal.
--Justin On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:05 PM, david ignacio <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > 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. 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