On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:34 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Galen Charlton <[email protected]>: > > > 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. ;) >> > > I'm tempted to setup a bot to +1 this sentiment repeatedly. To me the > argument behind creating a new list is to expand conversations and create > new ones, not to fork or stifle them. > > My general SysAdmin questions have always been covered well on the IRC, but I appreciate the drag on developers' time that answering the same 20 questions multiple times a week might pose (though I have only rarely seen the equivalent of RTFM or "you're on the wrong list"). Sometimes I really was asking the question on the wrong list! I think a list for sysadmins makes some sense, but it begs the question, "Whose time and expertise will be split out to cover the questions there?"
Just a thought, Wolf > > >> 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 >> > > > > ---------------------- > Rogan Hamby > Manager Rock Hill Library & Reference Services > York County Library System > > "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too > dark > to read." - Groucho Marx > -- This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com Advancing Libraries Together - http://LYRASIS.org
