On 8/21/2011 1:09 PM, RGB ES wrote: ...snip...
I also think that the problem with existing mailing list is more profound than the "to aliases or not to aliases": we cannot ask all the contributors on all OOo related mailing lists to come here if not for other reason because of the language. For instance, very valuable persons on both, the Spanish and Italian forums will never be able to survive to 60+ *full English* mails a day. Cheers Ricardo
Note that IMO a careful selection of language specific lists for users and user support is something I think would be good to continue to maintain. The language issue for users (not developers as much) is important, and supporting that is something that a number of other Apache projects do implement.
But for developer focused lists and other lists where the community actually works on the project; in that case, I would tend to having a single list instead of per-language lists. Each time you separate lists for regular contributors (people who actually work on code/docs/extensions, etc.), you separate the community to a degree.
Just my suggestions to think about - Shane
