Re: Private mail lists [was: Inappropriate use of announce@]

2003-10-25 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Steven Noels wrote: Santiago Gala wrote: When I said: Just tell them. I think they are all PMC Chairs are subscribed to board, so it should be easy to tell them there to Sideway comment from my little peanut gallery: this is (only) the second time I overheard that PMC chairs can subscribe to bo

Re: Private mail lists [was: Inappropriate use of announce@]

2003-10-24 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Santiago Gala wrote: ... Another troublesome and interesting case is incubation processes. There are messages going back and forth between the incubator and the relevant pmc to take the project, and quite often the final acceptance decision is not documented anywhere, or barely so. And the pr

Cleverer than yesterday (Re: Inappropriate use of announce@)

2003-10-24 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:25:09 +0200 Santiago Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (both in the harsh criticism trend, by one or the other, every one of > us is in the role at times, and in the sense that we learn that we can > survive to it and fight against it and be actually supported by other >

Re: Private mail lists [was: Inappropriate use of announce@]

2003-10-23 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Steven Noels wrote: > Santiago Gala wrote: >>> Just tell them. I think they are all PMC Chairs are subscribed to >>> board, so it should be easy to tell them there to > > Sideway comment from my little peanut gallery: this is (only) the second > time I overheard that PMC chairs can subscribe t

Re: Private mail lists [was: Inappropriate use of announce@]

2003-10-23 Thread Steven Noels
Santiago Gala wrote: When I said: Just tell them. I think they are all PMC Chairs are subscribed to board, so it should be easy to tell them there to Sideway comment from my little peanut gallery: this is (only) the second time I overheard that PMC chairs can subscribe to board@ - in three year

Private mail lists [was: Inappropriate use of announce@]

2003-10-23 Thread Santiago Gala
El miércoles, 22 octu, 2003, a las 06:18 Europe/Madrid, Phil Steitz escribió: Maybe I am way off base here, but I see the whole community as responsible. The Board and PMCs (relatively stable "authorities") have to exist for legal reasons and to make program-level decisions (including how

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-23 Thread Santiago Gala
El martes, 21 octu, 2003, a las 07:03 Europe/Madrid, Craig R. McClanahan escribió: One of the hardest things for many newcomers to Apache (or other open source cultures that operate similarly) is the brusque-sounding tone of many comments. It's not personal -- it's based on a (shared) goal to

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-22 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Phil Steitz wrote: Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Phil Steitz wrote: Craig R. McClanahan wrote: ... I don't think that effective decision-making in a large organization *requires* bureacracy. You're right. It requires responsibility. It's possible that an entity is responsible of something without ha

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-22 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003, at 01:23 Europe/Rome, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: "Condemn the offense but not the offender." ( Tsumi wo nikun de, hito wo nikuma zu ) I'll add this to my list of design patterns for community management. Without this principle, e-mail communication might soon end up with

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-22 Thread Phil Steitz
Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: Phil Steitz wrote: Craig R. McClanahan wrote: ... I don't think that effective decision-making in a large organization *requires* bureacracy. You're right. It requires responsibility. It's possible that an entity is responsible of something without having bureacracy in

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
I am not sure whether this proverb (?) can express my feelings and one of my principles, however, I am willing to put it here: "Condemn the offense but not the offender." ( Tsumi wo nikun de, hito wo nikuma zu ) -- This principle might be really adaptable to Open Source Software Communities, I

RE: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Sander Striker
> From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:59 AM > I don't think David and Sander did such a bad thing, they expressed > their opinion, but I disliked the way they did and I wanted to > apologize for the feeling you got out of this. > > You felt sad

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Phil Steitz wrote: Craig R. McClanahan wrote: ... I don't think that effective decision-making in a large organization *requires* bureacracy. You're right. It requires responsibility. It's possible that an entity is responsible of something without having bureacracy in place. In Apache it's main

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Phil Steitz
Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Your comment about bureacracy is interesting. For the first time in my life, I've spent the last three+ years working for a big company (Sun), after working for organizations with < 500 employees previously in my career. Apache's bureaucracy doesn't hold a candle t

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread André Malo
I know, I shouldn't post this... * Henning Schmiedehausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Life is not fair. [..] > If you voluntarily chose to stay in a location where you can't get what ^^^ How did you get that impression? > you need to keep up, you can't expect others to scale

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
I won't. Life is not fair. I have several customers there (Hofheim), so I know about this. Solution: Move. E.g. my last house move and the location of my office were purely based on the number of carriers able to offer me bandwith there. I live in this century, I want to interact with its technol

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
I don't want to drag this along forever, but I feel I need to be precise because I don't want email communication to make it drier than it is. On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 09:07 Europe/Rome, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:52:16 +0200 Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: W

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:52:16 +0200 Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I apologized it was because of the tone of the discussion and > because the discussion took place in the wrong location (when > foundation-wide entities start to deal with merit issues, the entire > > foundat

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 07:03 Europe/Rome, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:02:35 -0400 (Subject: Re: Inappropriate use of announce@) Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: tetsuya has a lot of energy, and i think we are seeing the

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:02:35 -0400 (Subject: Re: Inappropriate use of announce@) Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: tetsuya has a lot of energy, and i think we are seeing the common decay into inertia and conservatism common to groups as they grow a

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:02:35 -0400 (Subject: Re: Inappropriate use of announce@) Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tetsuya has a lot of energy, and i think we are seeing the common > decay into inertia and conservatism common to groups as they grow > and age.

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: > > Any by trying to build "an ideal world for yourself", you basically > killed whatever enthusiasm or dedication Tetsuya showed. Because you > offered no support or at least positive feedback but only "we don't like > this format, this way of posting, this content,

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread André Malo
* Henning Schmiedehausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I liked the idea of a general "announce" list where all this stuff is > sent and let my mail client sort it out. This is the 21st century. If > you have bandwidth, disk space or download time concerns, you're either > not using the right techno

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Abele
On 20/10/2003, at 04:44, Rob Oxspring wrote: we know that everybody has his/her own preferences Again I would have thought that most of us are grown up enough to realise that. Therefore I wrote '... we [the ASF community] know ...' :) so why don't we just go with a pull-model instead of pushing th

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Abele
On 20/10/2003, at 04:43, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: Well, the threads on this and other similar topics showed that the majority of our community has a completely different point of view when it comes to information reception. Compared to whom? To you, me or Tetsuyo? EVERYBODY HAS HIS/HER OWN PR

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:13:35 +0200 (Subject: Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@) Nicola Ken Barozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently read that the smaller an issue is, the bigger a discussion it > gets, as everyone has something to say. > >

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
I recently read that the smaller an issue is, the bigger a discussion it gets, as everyone has something to say. This issue must be pretty trivial then. In any case, who decides? What is the PMC or "something" overlooking these things, that can give a reasonable decision and stop all this nonse

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Rob Oxspring
I've been trying to stay out of all this but the logic here just made me bite and chime in. - Original Message - From: "Erik Abele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 12:38 PM Subject: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@ [

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 13:38, Erik Abele wrote: Hi, > Well, the threads on this and other similar topics showed that the > majority > of our community has a completely different point of view when it comes > to > information reception. Compared to whom? To you, me or Tetsuyo? > > To summariz

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Joshua Slive
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > long ago, when the original httpd announce@apache.org got > repurposed into a general announcement list, did we say > anything about what subscribers could expect? do we say > anything about it now on the page where people learn about > the list

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Sander Striker wrote: > > Also consider the people that are subscribed to the announce list, all 8304 > of them. I'm sure they didn't sign up to an announcement list to receive > 43k emails. If they had wanted that, they would have subscribed to a > newsletter... ;). after any announcement to

Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Abele
As the discussion now shows *nobody* is in favour of Tetsuyas resignation and *everybody* appreciate[sd] his efforts but it also seems that there exist some basic misunderstandings, at least I've lost the point somewhere last night... On 20/10/2003, at 10:44, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: And th

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:37:23 +0200 (Subject: RE: Inappropriate use of announce@) "Sander Striker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also consider the people that are subscribed to the announce list, > all 8304 of them. 8304 Great! I have heard from Noel that the nu

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Cliff Woolley
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Joshua Slive wrote: > I do believe that there have been some people getting a little too picky > about "policies". In general in the Apache world, and especially in the > case of the documentation, he who does the work should get to make the > decisions. Suggesting that the

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Lars Eilebrecht
According to Stefano Mazzocchi: > I *DO* agree that it is, IMO, better to use Noel's suggestion and send > a short reminder of the newsletter with a link to the web site. I agree > with Justin as well, nobody likes to read long emails, expecially when > you didn't ask for them. Well, I tend to

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: I very much enjoyed the hard work that Tetsuya put into the newsletter and I'm very sad to see him step down because of such puny reasons as to which mailing list this newsletter should be sent. Me too on both points. Steve. -- Stephen J. McConnell mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
And then we end up with 200 mailinglists, each getting a single message per month/week/year. Vey efficient. Verrry german. I love it! Everything in its neat little box. Stamped, filed, put away. I liked the idea of a general "announce" list where all this stuff is sent and let my mail client s

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread John Keyes
Tetsuya, Noel J. Bergman wrote: You did a great job, as usual, on the newsletter, and you should continue to do so, IMO. +1, your contribution is very much appreciated. -John K - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addit

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Joshua Slive wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: Nope. I have to resign. Well, thanks for your contribution Tetsuya. I think it is a worthwhile project, and I hope you reconsider or someone picks it up. I do believe that there have been some people getting a little too pic

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Glen Stampoultzis
At 12:41 PM 20/10/2003, you wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: > Nope. I have to resign. Well, thanks for your contribution Tetsuya.  I think it is a worthwhile project, and I hope you reconsider or someone picks it up. I do believe that there have been some people getting a litt

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Joshua Slive
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: > Nope. I have to resign. Well, thanks for your contribution Tetsuya. I think it is a worthwhile project, and I hope you reconsider or someone picks it up. I do believe that there have been some people getting a little too picky about "policies". I

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Berin Lautenbach
> From: Erik Abele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Announce@ is for announcements, community@ for community musings, and > *perhaps* > newsletter@ is for the newsletter. That's it, simple, eh? +1. (Can still put a short note in announce@) Cheers, Berin This message was sent through MyMail http://w

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Hi Tetsuya! Many people is very interested and apreciate your effort in creating a kind of "glue" for all the projects under the Apache umbrella. Here include me too, for sure! Tetsuya Kitahata dijo: > > Nope. I have to resign. The difference of the e-mail culture. Hmm I can't believe that.

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:40:24 -0400 "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... It seems that the newsletter itself is going to the contrary. > The newsletter is doing that job. All that was asked is that you > post an announcement to announce@, not the entire contents. Why is > that a

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-19 Thread Berin Lautenbach
ositive and adapt! Cheers, Berin > > From: Tetsuya Kitahata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Inappropriate use of announce@ > Date: 20/10/2003 9:20:39 > To: community@apache.org > > > Nope. I have to resign. The difference of the e-mail culture. > We, Japanese

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-19 Thread Erik Abele
On 20/10/2003, at 01:40, Noel J. Bergman wrote: The original intention of the newsletter was "Newsletter will be one of the *glue* of the communities in the ASF umbrella ... It seems that the newsletter itself is going to the contrary. The newsletter is doing that job. All that was asked is that

RE: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-19 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> The original intention of the newsletter was "Newsletter > will be one of the *glue* of the communities in the ASF > umbrella > ... It seems that the newsletter itself is going to the contrary. The newsletter is doing that job. All that was asked is that you post an announcement to announce@,

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-19 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
am willing to resign. Thank you for reading. -- Tetsuya. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:08:19 -0400 (Subject: RE: Inappropriate use of announce@) "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tetsuya, > > All that David was asking is that you post a SHORT announce

RE: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-19 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Tetsuya, All that David was asking is that you post a SHORT announcement, like the sample I posted, rather than the ENTIRE newsletter. That is all. You did a great job, as usual, on the newsletter, and you should continue to do so, IMO. --- Noel ---

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-19 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
ter/editor.html Thank you for reading and sorry for posting FAT mails twice to announce@, before. -- Tetsuya. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:09:46 +0100 (Subject: Inappropriate use of announce@) "David Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I feel the posting of the