Re: Dev vs User Mailing Lists

On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 3:47 PM Shawn Heisey wrote: > ...I suspect that it's a little > bit odd within Apache for a dev list to be larger than a user list... It depends on the "shape" of your community. The rationale for recommending that (most) Apache podlings initially get a dev list only is

Re: Dev vs User Mailing Lists

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 10:09 PM Javier Borkenztain wrote: > > ...I really enjoyed the presentation > James > Dailey shared a couple of months ago... Great reference, thank you! (BTW https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/PYTHON-532

Re: Dev vs User Mailing Lists

Thanks all for your comments, there are strong arguments against Whatsapp, and it seems that the biggest one is that cannot be stored on ASF servers (for now?). Hipchat is good, but Whatsapp is ubiquitous and for many of us, number 1 messaging and communication tool. We just need to lower the

Re: Dev vs User Mailing Lists

Javier, Thanks for the suggestion about a WhatsApp group - I agree that a user-friendly more real-time chat tool is a nice complement to mailing lists but by no means a replacement. I agree with all the feedback shared by Mark and Myrle and don't really think WhatsApp might be the most ideal tool

Re: Dev vs User Mailing Lists

Circling back to the original topic of discussion on this thread, given the volume on the user mailing list is so low and given the feedback on this thread thus far, I would propose we consolidate into one list and adopt a policy of appropriately tagging messages in the subject line. This hack on