Thanks Wayne,
That makes sense. I will inform my co-contributors that we need to shut down our
dev Google Group and move to the eclipse list after all.
I am assuming, by the way, that contributors who are not actual project members
can also subscribe to this list (provided they've signed the CLA, at least)?
As for the user forum: we are not planning to use it, so I'll ask the webmaster
to shut it down for us.
Cheers,
Jeen
On 28/05/16 03:12, Wayne Beaton wrote:
My apologies for the tardy response.
The -dev list must be used for project-specific communication between project
committers. There's a couple of reasons for this in addition to the very good
reason provided by Andreas... First, to join the "dev" list, participants
agree that contributions are governed by our Terms Of Use. This provides some
legal cover when ideas (or even small bits of code) are used in
implementations (note that if you take code off of a mailing list, you still
need to go through the Eclipse IP Due Diligence process). Further, these
communications contain important information that must be maintained
indefinitely, and by keeping archives under our webmaster control, we are
insulated from changes in business plans, etc. of third-party providers.
Communication with the user community is more flexible. You really do need to
go where the users go. You don't need to keep the forum, but if you do, please
make sure that it is monitored regularly. If you do decide to use an external
service for this sort of group, as much as is possible, please make sure that
the web presence conforms to the trademark guidelines (e.g. include a
trademark message "RDF4J is a trademark of the Eclipse Foundation").
HTH,
Wayne
On 27/05/16 08:43 AM, Andreas Sewe wrote:
Hi,
During Eclipse project initiation, the webmaster created the standard
new fora for us to use: the rdf4j-dev mailinglist, and the RDF4J web
forum athttps://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/f/316/ .
My question is: is there any preference from within the Eclipse
community to switch to these new fora, or can we (as is our current
preference) continue using our existing groups? Are there any advantages
that I may be overlooking to switch to these?
I think having the developers list (as opposed to the user list) here at
eclipse.org makes sense, in particular as there are a few processes that
send mails to rdf4j-dev (committer elections through the Portal, for
example).
I don't know whether these processes can be configured to use a
different mailing list or whether they always use the eclipse.org list.
If the latter, every developer has to stay subscribed to both
[email protected] and the Google group to not miss out on anything.
Hope that helps.
Andreas
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