Dave Miner wrote:
Stephen Lau wrote:
Dave Miner wrote:
[removed opensolaris-code for this specific question]
Stephen Lau wrote:
...
The reason I ask is with the advent of
[EMAIL PROTECTED], and the move to make
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a mandatory subscription for
all registered users; the OGB would like to move project delivery
announcements (e.g.: ON b67 is now available!) off of
opensolaris-announce, and onto project/community-specific discussion
lists.
I'm not sure I follow what the intention is for those of us who might
want to hear about milestones from other projects without following
their entire discussion list - would the example "ON b67 is
available" announcement be going to project-announce?
No, the idea is for project-announce to only be used for new project
announcements. Milestone announcements should go to the
project-specific list (e.g.: on-announce or something for "ON b67 is
available").
Seems awfully low volume to have bothered with a separate list - ~2
messages per week based on historical activity?
Well on-announce (as envisioned by Mark) would also be used for flag
days, etc... basically the equivalent of the gateling mailing list.
Other projects would probably just send to their regular discuss list.
Seems to me like we're
fragmenting where it's not needed. Does this mean that
opensolaris-announce is reserved for OGB announcements then?
opensolaris-announce would be used for announcements affecting the
entire community... so that's things like:
- New communities
- New policies (e.g.: project instantiation policy changes)
- Constitution amendments
- Site maintenance/outages
.. etc.
Since it would be a mandatory subscription for all registered users -
the traffic should be low... sending project announcements to it
generates too much traffic for a mandatory list.
Is it common for people to want to hear about milestones from projects
without following the discussion list? I admit, that's not something
I do so it's not something I had thought of. Would people be
interested in having something like a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] list or something?
So, maybe I'm weird (though I am on lots of project lists already, which
is only possible with an extensive set of mail filters which I'd prefer
not to keep growing). But I think your proposed model presents a
barrier to getting people interested in projects that may not have been
of interest when they were first announced. It's my perception most of
them (Indiana *not* included) could use more publicity to help get
energy and attention directed to solving the problems, rather than
aimless conversations here on opensolaris-discuss - I'd actually like to
be seeing *more* announcements of progress from projects than we
currently get...
I'm not opposed to seeing more announcements, but I don't think it
should go to a mandatory list for all subscribers. It should be
opt-in... whether that's on a project-specific list, or a
project-progress discussion list... I'm fine with either.
cheers,
steve
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