Shanon Loveridge wrote:
On 9/8/05, *Jim Grisanzio* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
In general, as traffic increases on discuss -- no matter what the issue
happens to be -- people comment to me that they can't keep up, they
want to unsubscribe, and that the list is not focused. So, I'm not sure what
to make of it. One person's conversation is another's noise, I suppose.
I ended up unsubscribing from this list due to the above reasons and
just subscribed to lists covering the areas I am interested in. However,
I found that the other lists are largely unused and discussions that
should be taking place on those list are taking place here, so I
resubscribed.
Can threads on a topic covered by another list in the OpenSolaris
community please be started / moved to the related list.
This is a common story but it can be used to argue two ways -- (1) that
we should distribute the conversation more to better follow the
technical issues, and (2) that the community is naturally migrating to
discuss (probably for simplicity) and in the process is making the list
unusable for a majority of people while leaving other lists unused so we
need to fix discuss. And around we go. I have no answer and am open to
suggestions.
I'm fine with leaving "discuss" as "discuss" because it has grown into a
general conversation list. We can certainly change the name if that's
the issue to make it more clear, though. I'm also happy to be more
assertive in pushing conversations to different lists, but when I do
that people either ignore the request or the thread dies and I get
slapped for butting in. Help me out on this one ... I'm not sure what
the best result is.
I have noticed this as well perhaps we need a moderator?
We have over 50 lists now (with 10 taking most of the traffic and many
not really online yet such as various user groups, etc), so one more is
not going to kill us. Happy to at least consider it.
The number of lists is a bit ridiculous especially as they are largely
unused. Perhaps we could consolidate some?
Look at the list: http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/
This grew because the community wanted these lists -- many times
insisting on them. Most can't be consolidated because they are too
specialized, and I think that's fine because I think the number will grow.
I think we just need to decide how we handle discuss. Do we make it a
general list and actively move (moderate) technical discussions out and
onto to the other lists? Or do we just need to weed irrelevant
conversations (and who decides what's relevant)?
Jim
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Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
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