I'm neither a +1 nor a -1 on this topic. What I would like to say relative to this topic, however, is that I hope people will step out on a limb and put their questions and comments out there one way or another. At the conference, I heard from many people that they were reluctant about posting for one reason or another. Generally these ideas revolved around insecurity of some kind.
I can imagine a lot of overlaps between issues related to development and sysadmin and if everyone is really okay with all things technical, it seems better to keep all the useful info that will pass through the list in one place. I want the devs to know if there is something that the sysadmins are struggling with...for example. And often a developer will have the key to a problem that a sysadmin is facing. So I guess I'm leaning more to the Ben camp on this. I would like to encourage us all to do a better job of encouraging everyone to use the mailing lists and be very careful about the way we interact with each other. I'd like us to develop a Code of Conduct...I believe Jono suggested such a thing and it started with something along the lines of 1. Don't be a jerk. Perhaps we could flesh that out! I'm thinking we could modify our Communications Guidelines with our Code of Conduct, if we could develop one. We'll also update it with info about our new lists and perhaps add some language to encourage everyone to use them more freely. Lori On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Galen Charlton <g...@esilibrary.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > On 5/1/2012 12:29 PM, Jason Etheridge wrote: > >> But, as was said in IRC today, whatever gets folks talking and sharing... >> > > And I'm consequently a mild +1 for the original proposal. > > There is nothing in open-ils-dev's remit that should forbid or discourage > discussion of any technical topic, including system administration. > Nonetheless, if there is active interest in a new forum, I would rather > that we let it run as a mindful experiment under the Evergreen banner > rather than risk the discussion not happening at all or taking place > elsewhere. If a sysadmin list gets little traffic, it is easy enough to > close it, just as it would be easy to create it in the first place. If it > seems to be wandering into the wheat fields (the land of silos, natch), we > can work together to draw it back into the fold. > > However, I would like to riff off a comment that Dan Scott made on IRC > earlier today: if a sysadmin list gets created but folks start "answering" > questions with the response "You're on the wrong list! Go away!", I would > immediately move to collapse *all* Evergreen project into open-ils-general. > ;) > > Regards, > > Galen > -- > Galen Charlton > Director of Support and Implementation > > Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts > email: g...@esilibrary.com > direct: +1 770-709-5581 > cell: +1 404-984-4366 > skype: gmcharlt > > web: http://www.esilibrary.com > Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & > http://evergreen-ils.org >
