On 22/11/06, Cliff Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A very brief thread on the PPMC private list was started to request a
user list from infrastructure. Since I think this warrants a
discussion, I'm moving the topic to the open dev list.
I would suggest we hold off on adding a user list. I'd direct all
user questions to the dev list at this stage. The Incubator used to
set up dev and user lists for all incubating projects, but then many
people noted that this tended to partition the two groups right at the
time when you could really use some interaction between them. The dev
list should always be the place that users report bugs or request
features or discuss interop issues. The user list is just there to
help users understand how to use the product. At an early stage of
development, most of the user comments and questions are directly
related to the ongoing development of the product.
For this reason, incubating projects these days are generally
encouraged to keep both user and devs together on one list until the
user-oriented traffic grows to a point that it becomes too noisy and
not useful for all developers to be hearing.
Cliff
It may be encouraged to keep both user and dev lists together but a
number of incubators have user lists. I count 29 podlings with 18 of
them having user lists. Including the recently created podling ivy.
If we put the creation of the user list up for a vote on the developer
list (with the intention that all developers should subscribe to this
user list) can we as a community go with the result even if that is
not what our mentors would recommend?
--
Martin Ritchie
