Don't you mean perfect is the enemy of good?

Jeff

On Apr 28, 2012, at 10:42 AM, "dB." <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't know about what's ideal, but the list has been working very well. And 
> better is enemy of good.
> 
> +1 to keep things as is, leave the list alone and leave SO as is.
> 
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:27:39 PM UTC-4, Neil Middleton wrote:
> Our of interest, what do people think is the ideal form of community support 
> for something like Heroku?  Lots use SO, and lots hang out here. 
> 
> -Neil 
> 
> On 27 Apr 2012, at 21:19, Justin Houk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> That does seem the option that does the least harm to the existing 
>> community.  I am among those who appreciate the stream of Heroku-related 
>> information this group provides through my inbox, which is a service neither 
>> support.heroku.com nor SO provides.  I would be happy if it would remain 
>> available as a community group rather than being completely erased when 
>> Heroku withdrew active support.
>> 
>> --Justin
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Sara Dornsife <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yes, reconsidering the prior decision. One idea is to keep a Google Group 
>> going, same members, but have it be a community group not a branded Heroku 
>> group where troubleshooting can still occur.
>> Sara
>> 
>> On Apr 26, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Randy Regnier wrote:
>> 
>> > I guess I'm more confused now with the the clarification statement. Your 
>> > first statement laid out a decent business case for closing this list. 
>> > Reasonable people can agree or disagree with the conclusion, but it was a 
>> > decent enough option, given the data provided. But, now it appears you 
>> > would like to have more discussion. Are you reconsidering the prior 
>> > decision to close the list or just going through some exercise? There 
>> > isn't much point in trying to argue the case to keep it open, if the 
>> > conclusion can't be changed.
>> >
>> > Randy
>> >
>> > On 4/25/2012 2:24 PM, Sara Dornsife wrote:
>> >> Let me apologize again for the miscommunication. I screwed up. Let me 
>> >> also elaborate on my previous response.
>> >>
>> >> As you know (and hopefully one of the reasons you guys love us), we move 
>> >> fast. Sometimes, too fast. This went from an idea to a note in a 
>> >> newsletter very quickly without the appropriate process we should apply 
>> >> to it. I take responsibility for this.
>> >>
>> >> We want to involve you guys. By definition, if you're on this list, you 
>> >> are passionate supportive developers that we love and consider a core 
>> >> part of Heroku. This step was inappropriately skipped.
>> >>
>> >> Here's the baseline we're operating from:
>> >> - Through support, we hear regularly from users who are frustrated with 
>> >> this group and the lack of response they received.
>> >> - Prospects are looking for a thriving community as part of their 
>> >> evaluation of Heroku. I say "prospects" here meaning individual 
>> >> developers, not just "enterprise" level customers. This Google Group 
>> >> isn't that. The traffic is low enough that it appears to mean we don't 
>> >> have an active community.
>> >> - Stack Overflow has to grown to actually be a better place for getting 
>> >> answers many times than this Google Group. Traffic there is WAY higher 
>> >> than this group.
>> >> - Heroku would like to officially participate more actively in community 
>> >> work. Spreading our efforts has a cost.
>> >>
>> >> With that baseline, we have discussed internally focusing our users and 
>> >> community efforts on Stack Overflow. That consideration should have been 
>> >> discussed here, soliciting your feedback and suggestions.
>> >>
>> >> While we didn't get the sequence right, we do have the discussion going 
>> >> now. Let's treat it as that - a discussion.
>> >>
>> >> I see a few topics to discuss:
>> >> - Focusing Heroku's community efforts in SO
>> >> - Leaving this group up
>> >> - Shutting this group down
>> >> - Other ideas
>> >>
>> >> Am I missing anything?
>> >> Sara
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Apr 25, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Ted Husted wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hmmm, if any of us here agreed with any of those (unsubstantiated)
>> >>> statements, then we wouldn't be here.
>> >>>
>> >>> -Ted.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Sara Dornsife<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> >>>> I'm Sara Dornsife, Dir of Dev Mktg at Heroku. Sorry for not introducing
>> >>>> myself earlier. Also sorry for not posting here about wanting to close 
>> >>>> this
>> >>>> list before it hit the newsletter.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> List traffic has been low and very often the questions/comments posted 
>> >>>> here
>> >>>> are best resolved on support.heroku.com. At the same time, Stackoverflow
>> >>>> usage has continued to grow and the community there is very active.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> For those reasons, we feel its best to consolidate to support and
>> >>>> Stackoverflow.
>> >>>> Sara
>> >
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