On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:48 PM, eric b <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Looking at the archives (see [1]), the flow of mails we receive every day, > on ooo-dev mailing list is really big, and not always "development" > relevant. And more than 1500 mails every month, is maybe too much (of me it > is). Of course, I'm the first to think, some topics are important, > interesting and must be debated, but we reached some limit, and must, say > ... improve the situation. > > As a compromise, what about to create [email protected] ? > > Thanks in advance for any suggestion / opinion :-) >
I think it is a balance between having a single community with a single conversation, and allowing committers to focus. Focus is mainly a mental skill, a habit. If you look at the committers checking in the most code, they seem to be far less active than those who are posting frequently on every thread. If we had a discuss forum, perhaps some of the "side conversations" might migrate there. But it is not guaranteed. The problem would be that the "ooo-discuss" sub-community would have nothing to do, nothing to focus on. And we would still have flame wars on ooo-dev, since trolls want to be on the busy list, not the side list. What might work, is if we get a large volume of focused threads on ooo-dev that are related much more to each other than are related to other threads, then we could think about making a new list for that topic. Think of refactoring software and looking for code with high intra-module cohesion but with low inter-module coupling. An example of this might be an ooo-l10n list for localization/translation/related threads. Both at a technical level and in terms of the pre-existing community, that subject has been separate. Regards, -Rob > > Regards, > Eric Bachard > > [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/ > > -- > qɔᴉɹə > Projet OOo4Kids : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page > L'association EducOOo : http://www.educoo.org > Blog : http://eric.bachard.org/news > > > > > >
