Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:23:49 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 18:08 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: The intended usage of test list has always been a problem. Once in a while, somebody points that out, but there's nobody (no leadership) to work on a change actively. Is

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 04:02:23PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: The people who've pointed out the confusion about which list to choose when haven't drunk away their memory and could join here, but that will be fruitless if an instance such as FESCo decides otherwise. So, here's what I'd like

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:17:14 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: I would think that if we are in a situation where people who do development don't subscribe to the devel list because of 'energy' reasons (disillusionment, feelings of either a) pointlessness b) fait-accompli, etc.), then just moving

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 16:02 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: The split and intended usage has been questioned by several community members for many years, even already when the lists where still on Red Hat's servers. Locating such comments with a search engine isn't easy.

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 10:48 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 04:02:23PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: The people who've pointed out the confusion about which list to choose when haven't drunk away their memory and could join here, but that will be fruitless if an

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:40:28 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: Ever since I've joined, which is ohgod nearly five years ago now, the split has seemed reasonably clear and non-controversial, and I really can't recall anyone being particularly confused about it, so perhaps this is a problem which

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 21:43 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:40:28 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: Ever since I've joined, which is ohgod nearly five years ago now, the split has seemed reasonably clear and non-controversial, and I really can't recall anyone being

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 13:54:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: I'm sure the docs team talks about stuff in Rawhide occasionally too; Unlike devel, the docs list is related to Documentation only, isn't it? Could you imagine turning devel into a less general list? Is devel the catch-all for anything

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 23:08 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 13:54:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: I'm sure the docs team talks about stuff in Rawhide occasionally too; Unlike devel, the docs list is related to Documentation only, isn't it? Could you imagine turning

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:41:12AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: mailman topics/keywords features to sort into meaningful sub-categories. I understand that hyperkitty will make this nice and easy, but it's also not really very hard just as email. Note that you can subscribe to just certain

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 17:41 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: I'd love to hear better suggestions the main problem seems to be it's so busy no one goes there anymore. There is a rather obvious gaping logical flaw in that one ;) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw |

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Pete Travis
On Oct 25, 2013 3:09 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 13:54:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: I'm sure the docs team talks about stuff in Rawhide occasionally too; Unlike devel, the docs list is related to Documentation only, isn't it? Could you imagine

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:41:12AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: mailman topics/keywords features to sort into meaningful sub-categories. I understand that hyperkitty will make this nice and easy, but it's also

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:02:44 -0600, Pete Travis wrote: On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 13:54:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: I'm sure the docs team talks about stuff in Rawhide occasionally too; Unlike devel, the docs list is related to Documentation only, isn't it? Could you imagine turning

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 02:11 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: Adam says that devel is relevant to *developers* (or rather, packagers). Yet there is the packaging list, too. Quote from Oct 16th: I don't know whether this belongs to the packaging or devel list, Now to me, THAT seems like a

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/25/2013 04:48 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 04:02:23PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: The people who've pointed out the confusion about which list to choose when haven't drunk away their memory and could join here, but that will be fruitless if an instance such as

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/26/2013 02:14 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 02:11 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: Adam says that devel is relevant to *developers* (or rather, packagers). Yet there is the packaging list, too. Quote from Oct 16th: I don't know whether this belongs to the packaging or

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/25/2013 11:55 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 17:41 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: I'd love to hear better suggestions the main problem seems to be it's so busy no one goes there anymore. There is a rather obvious gaping logical flaw in that one ;) Not quite.

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 18:08 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: The intended usage of test list has always been a problem. Once in a while, somebody points that out, but there's nobody (no leadership) to work on a change actively. Is it only for Test releases or also for Rawhide? Its description

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 17:34 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 10/21/2013 05:25 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: So, discussing Test Updates for stable dist releases belongs onto which list? According to some in the QA community ( at least in the past ) any GA release test topic ( like

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 07:01 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 10/21/2013 07:48 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:07:25 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: As a first step, I suggest clearing up the intended usage of devel list. There's too much traffic on that list. 792 messages

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 08:26:54PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: Correct. Less lists (or the same lists) and with a more well-defined target group and description. So, in the not so far future, we'll have mailman3 and hyperkitty, and we want to migrate the lists to that. That switchover point

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-22 Thread Bill Nottingham
Kevin Fenzi (ke...@scrye.com) said: As a first step, I suggest clearing up the intended usage of devel list. There's too much traffic on that list. 792 messages so far in October. Even if one uses filtering, the recurring task of skimming over the devel list folder is tiresome, since it's

communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 01:42:37AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: A few years ago we've been much better at talking about things and coming to a conclusion. Nowadays I have the feeling the community is fragmented too much. With some people avoiding mailing-lists like the plague, some people

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 21 October 2013 07:52, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 01:42:37AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: A few years ago we've been much better at talking about things and coming to a conclusion. Nowadays I have the feeling the community is fragmented too

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:52:32 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: A few years ago we've been much better at talking about things and coming to a conclusion. Nowadays I have the feeling the community is fragmented too much. With some people avoiding mailing-lists like the plague, some people

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/21/2013 04:08 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: The intended usage of test list has always been a problem. Once in a while, somebody points that out, but there's nobody (no leadership) to work on a change actively. Is it only for Test releases or also for Rawhide? Its description is vague. Is

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:08:09 +0200 Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:52:32 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: A few years ago we've been much better at talking about things and coming to a conclusion. Nowadays I have the feeling the community is fragmented

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Jared K. Smith
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: Good idea. What items could we move to announce that would be more useful for folks that don't have as much time/energy to skim the main list? I'm assuming you're referring to the devel-announce list, and not the general

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 06:08:09PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: I have this same feeling. I think we need to fix it; do you have any thoughts or ideas as to how? If people hate email lists in general (or the number of messages posted to them), it cannot be fixed. Hmmm; I don't know if

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/21/2013 06:08 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:52:32 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: A few years ago we've been much better at talking about things and coming to a conclusion. Nowadays I have the feeling the community is fragmented too much. With some people avoiding

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 21 October 2013 11:08, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:00:59AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: Don't we have this same conversation every two years? With pretty much the same questions and feeling of disconnectedness? We fix a couple of

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:23:29 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: The intended usage of test list has always been a problem. Once in a while, somebody points that out, but there's nobody (no leadership) to work on a change actively. Is it only for Test releases or also for Rawhide? Its

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/21/2013 05:25 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: So, discussing Test Updates for stable dist releases belongs onto which list? According to some in the QA community ( at least in the past ) any GA release test topic ( like update testing ) belongs on the user list. JBG -- devel mailing list

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: According to some in the QA community ( at least in the past ) any GA release test topic ( like update testing ) belongs on the user list. If that's true then the updates-testing mail for N and N-1 need to go to the user list. -- devel mailing list

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/21/2013 05:44 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: According to some in the QA community ( at least in the past ) any GA release test topic ( like update testing ) belongs on the user list. If that's true then the updates-testing mail for N and N-1 need to go to

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:07:25 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: As a first step, I suggest clearing up the intended usage of devel list. There's too much traffic on that list. 792 messages so far in October. This is way down from the peak 5-7 years ago. What is the reason? More people avoiding

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 21 October 2013 11:48, Michael Schwendt mschwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:07:25 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: As a first step, I suggest clearing up the intended usage of devel list. There's too much traffic on that list. 792 messages so far in October. This is way

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:16:53 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 10/21/2013 06:08 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:52:32 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: A few years ago we've been much better at talking about things and coming to a conclusion. Nowadays I have the feeling the

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:57:06 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I am not saying shut-up but I am saying that I am confused by what you mean. First you seem to advocate more lists, That could be a misunderstanding. Have I've phrased something very poorly. Then please tell and give me a chance

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:47:12 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 10/21/2013 05:44 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: According to some in the QA community ( at least in the past ) any GA release test topic ( like update testing ) belongs on the user list.

Re: communications and community [was Re: Lack of response about sponsorship]

2013-10-21 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 10/21/2013 07:48 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:07:25 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: As a first step, I suggest clearing up the intended usage of devel list. There's too much traffic on that list. 792 messages so far in October. This is way down from the peak 5-7 years