In my opinion, it would be better to keep the capture agent traffic on the main list. Even though everyone may not be interested in hearing about Epiphans today, it can be good to see ideas float by from outside your current focus.
On Apr 23, 2012, at 8:13 AM, Tobias Wunden wrote: > 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] _______________________________________________
