I agree with Lori. I think she hit the nail on the head. Tim
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Lori Bowen Ayre <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] >> 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 >> > > -- Tim Spindler [email protected] *P** Go Green - **Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary.*
