Paul,
Now that we have the new web forum which has an improved interface, we could 1) Go back to monitoring it, which will be easier now. (We could ask for volunteers to monitor it for the next week in the Higgins developers call.) We could change the description to "General questions about Higgins Open Source Identity Framework - for technical questions subscribe to the Higgins-dev mailing list." 2) Change the description to Higgins Open Source Identity Framework doesn't use the Newsgroup - subscribe to the higgins-dev mailing list to ask questions. -Mary From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Trevithick Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 10:23 AM To: Mary Ruddy Cc: higgins-dev Subject: [higgins-dev] FW: [eclipse.org-project-leadership] Your project's description in the new Eclipse Forums Mary/all, We need a better plan for dealing with the Higgins web forum [1]. Since we pay so little attention to newsgroup/web forum, we're giving the impression that the project is inactive [2]. I'm sure Werner Keil was trying to be helpful, but his response doesn't reflect the reality of the activity in Higgins. All the activity is in higgins-dev. Also, the forum's tagline "Higgins Open Source Identity Framework" isn't helpful (see Wayne's email below). We should update it after we figure out a better plan here. Thoughts? --Paul [1] http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread <http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=55&S=50fccc34495b61 4423865869ba36e054> &frm_id=55&S=50fccc34495b614423865869ba36e054 [1] http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg <http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=2801&start=0&S=50fccc34495 b614423865869ba36e054> &th=2801&start=0&S=50fccc34495b614423865869ba36e054 ------ Forwarded Message From: Wayne Beaton <[email protected]> Reply-To: Mailing list for all people involved in Eclipse project management <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:31:02 -0700 To: <[email protected]>, Eric Rizzo <[email protected]> Subject: [eclipse.org-project-leadership] Your project's description in the new Eclipse Forums I am posting this note on behalf of Eric Rizzo. Eric's name is mostly likely very familiar to you if you spend any time in the newsgroups or the new forums. Eric works tirelessly to help people find their way around Eclipse. I am grateful to Eric for taking this initiative. -- Now that Denis has deemed the new web forums "ready for prime time" I wanted to point out that many of the projects need to update their newsgroup descriptions in the portal (there is a "description" field in the "newsgroup" entry). Many of the current descriptions are non-descriptive and don't give the casual reader any idea of what the project or its newsgroup/forum are about. Project leads, please take a minute to see what your project's newsgroup description looks like on the web forums page (http://www.eclipse.org/forums/) and update it as necessary. Something that I, personally, find annoying in newsgroup descriptions is the lack of an explanation of what acronyms stand for (acronyms are often used for Eclipse project names); similar for names like Glimmer or Hibachi, which don't tell the user anything about the projects. (not to pick on Glimmer or Hibachi; they just happen to be ones near the top of the list that don't have descriptive descriptions). Also remember that users might likely use their browser's search function to find your group in that long list, so keep that in mind when crafting the description. An example of one that I think is good is JDT's description: "Questions and technical discussions about how to use the Java development tools (JDT)" Again, the description text needs to be edited in the portal, NOT the forums micro-site. Any questions can be directed to me or Denis; I'm not subscribed to this list so please copy me directly on any follow-ups. Thanks, Eric Your Friendly Eclipse Community Volunteer _______________________________________________ eclipse.org-project-leadership mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/eclipse.org-project-leadership IMPORTANT: Membership in this list is generated by processes internal to the Eclipse Foundation. To be permanently removed from this list, you must contact [email protected] to request removal. ------ End of Forwarded Message No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.93/2365 - Release Date: 09/20/09 17:51:00
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