Hi Ruben, you are right that about 30% of all e-mails on the users list are about capture agents, of which are 70% around the Epiphan MCD. From that point of view it would certainly make sense to create a new list. I can see a few problems though with your proposal:
1) Opencast is not and should not be affiliated with a single vendor. This means, if we create a new list for the Epiphan device, we should create one (or be prepared to creating one) for other manufacturers as well. 2) It would basically turn Opencast into a support group for one or multiple capture devices. With Greg being the main developer on the MCD and a community menber at the same time it may make sense, however I almost feel like support (or at least a support list) should be located with the vendors and not with the community. Maybe creating a list for capture devices itself would make sense instead? My hope is that we'll see more capture devices appear soon, so bringing both the vendors and the users together on a shared list may make sense? Tobias On 23.04.2012, at 13:05, Rubén Pérez <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear list, > > We are seeing quite a big volume of mails related to problems or questions > re. the Epiphan MCD capture device. That's indeed a good sign that a great > number of adopters are getting interest in the product and considering it for > their deployments, but while there is a good number of MCD users, there is > also a lot of people who is not using it, and has little or no interest in > the questions/problems with the device. > > Therefore, I'm #proposing a new epiphan-mcd (or similar) mail list is > created, so that the people interested in the device can post their questions > there, while the rest of the community don't have to filter out the mails > regarding that. Besides, as the questions regarding the MCD are very > specific, so only those institutions that have bought some unit(s) and are > actually using it/them can actually provide support. In other words, all the > MCD-related issues are specific enough and separate from the rest of the > system to deserve a specific mail list, from my point of view. > > I'd like to hear your opinions, comments and/or criticism regarding this > matter. > > Best regards > Rubén > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn > > > To unsubscribe please email > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
