On 08.08.2011 16:43, Donald Whytock wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> What are examples of some threads that would belong in "web develop"? >> Have we had any threads like this? > > One example would be the recent Managing Downloads thread, which > evolved into a discussion about handling which mirrors would be used > and whether and how they would be made available for selection. This > is more the mechanics of the site rather than the content of the site, > and not at all the functionality of OOo. > > It's probably just as well that that thread started in ooo-dev -- as > Ross says, the idea is to build community -- but it might be good to > have a place for it to move into.
Really, most of the time requests for more mailing lists are caused by either usage of insufficient mail clients or wrong usage of otherwise perfectly capable clients. Example: if a thread doesn't interest you, mark it as "read" and don't read it. Or even better, have a client that allows you to automate that. But even without such measures the pain of some postings too much is much smaller than the pain caused by too many lists. >From past experience the huge number of mailings lists in the "old" OOo project was a PITA. It didn't happen often, but too often that people asked a question and were told that "this is not the right place, ask on the list x instead". This sucks, especially for if this was your first post to a list. IMHO new mailing lists shouldn't be created before the traffic in the existing MLs is clearly unbearable. On this list we are not even close to this. This will (hopefully! ;-)) change once we will have a release or maybe even short before this - but until then we should avoid everything that could bear a risk to fragment our still small commmunity. Besides that, using [tags] in subjects is a good idea. But to be useful they should be commonly accepted. No, I don't want to vote about them ;-), but we should give used tags a feedback loop. Regards, Mathias
