On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 06:09:38PM +0000, Peter Tribble wrote: > I've been following this discussion, and it seems to me that one problem > we have is that the current communities are focussed around subject > areas, > and we don't differentiate by audience. So how do we address the needs > of > different audiences without creating new communities? Is it just a case > of splitting the mailing lists up?
Yes, exactly. The focus on subject areas is intentional; that brings together the engineers designing and implementing a family of related features (in many projects) with the developers who extend or build on top of them, the users or administrators who will ultimately consume them, the documentation teams explaining how they work, and a wide variety of other people generally interested in those broadly related features/projects. I've seen several complaints here that there "are no really technical mailing lists." The way to fix that, as you suggest, is simply to create new mailing lists. Of course, in most cases the "really technical stuff" actually belongs at the project level, where design and implementation take place. But there's no reason that communities shouldn't foster deeply technical discussion as well, especially when the subject isn't specific to a particular project. In short, the communities aren't some ethereal bodies whose existence and function have been decreed by Sun. They're *your* organisations, to serve the purposes *you*, as members, find important. If you think a particular community isn't serving a segment of its membership very well, you're welcome to work with its leaders to change that. Forming a new community is almost never the right answer. The community life cycle, and how communities choose leaders, what those leaders are expected to do, and what happens when those leaders are unresponsive to the needs and desires of their communities are important topics for discussion in the context of the Constitution. Your input would be welcome on cab-discuss. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Solaris Kernel Team "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
