Re: Managing communities and emails (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta Language Components)

2006-03-14 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
Hey... I know what this could be called... Alexandria Henri Yandell wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Stephen Colebourne wrote: Henri Yandell wrote: A joke turns into something serious ...but I am all with you guys. As I said: the more I think about it - the more I like the idea! You've got

Re: Managing communities and emails (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta Language Components)

2006-03-14 Thread Henri Yandell
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Stephen Colebourne wrote: Henri Yandell wrote: A joke turns into something serious ...but I am all with you guys. As I said: the more I think about it - the more I like the idea! You've got my +1 :) But is that what you mean? (+1 is active not passive) It is what I

Re: Managing communities and emails (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta Language Components)

2006-03-14 Thread Stephen Colebourne
Henri Yandell wrote: A joke turns into something serious ...but I am all with you guys. As I said: the more I think about it - the more I like the idea! You've got my +1 :) But is that what you mean? (+1 is active not passive) This all sounds like a nice idea, and could potentially solve the

Re: Managing communities and emails (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta Language Components)

2006-03-14 Thread Henri Yandell
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Torsten Curdt wrote: i like the idea of tagging emails better: a single list with cool server side filtering and metrics. we don't have the technology for this yet so i'm willing to see the mailing lists split so long as people would be willing to consider coming back if i

Re: Managing communities and emails (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta Language Components)

2006-03-14 Thread Henri Yandell
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Torsten Curdt wrote: On 15.03.2006, at 10:10, Thomas Dudziak wrote: On 3/14/06, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...regarding the forums - na. What does that help? Judging from myself, users don't like to have to subscribe to mailing lists, especially wh

Re: Managing communities and emails (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta Language Components)

2006-03-14 Thread Torsten Curdt
On 15.03.2006, at 10:10, Thomas Dudziak wrote: On 3/14/06, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...regarding the forums - na. What does that help? Judging from myself, users don't like to have to subscribe to mailing lists, especially when they don't need the list on a daily basis.

Re: Managing communities and emails (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta Language Components)

2006-03-14 Thread Thomas Dudziak
On 3/14/06, Torsten Curdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...regarding the forums - na. What does that help? Judging from myself, users don't like to have to subscribe to mailing lists, especially when they don't need the list on a daily basis. E.g. I would hate to get every question and answer

Re: Managing communities and emails (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta Language Components)

2006-03-14 Thread Torsten Curdt
i like the idea of tagging emails better: a single list with cool server side filtering and metrics. we don't have the technology for this yet so i'm willing to see the mailing lists split so long as people would be willing to consider coming back if it every arrives... I was just consideri

Re: Managing communities and emails (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta Language Components)

2006-03-14 Thread Thomas Dudziak
On 3/14/06, J Aaron Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You mean like Nabble? (http://www.nabble.com) Though I recently migrated my project (Floyd) to OpenQA, I don't exactly know my way around there yet. But I think they are using Jive (http://www.jivesoftware.com/). cheers, Tom ---

Re: Managing communities and emails (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta Language Components)

2006-03-14 Thread J Aaron Farr
On 3/14/06, Thomas Dudziak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps a forum frontend would be even better for users, at least for > non-power-users. You mean like Nabble? (http://www.nabble.com) I like Simon's proposal. I know I need something that better allows me to manage the number of lists I'

Re: Managing communities and emails (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta Language Components)

2006-03-14 Thread Sandy McArthur
On 3/14/06, Thomas Dudziak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/14/06, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was just considering proposing exactly this! > > > > The issues about groupings, subprojects, etc. are completely irrelevant > > it seems to me. A community is the set of people sub

Re: Managing communities and emails (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta Language Components)

2006-03-14 Thread Thomas Dudziak
On 3/14/06, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just considering proposing exactly this! > > The issues about groupings, subprojects, etc. are completely irrelevant > it seems to me. A community is the set of people subscribed to emails > about a particular project, no more and no le

Managing communities and emails (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Jakarta Language Components)

2006-03-14 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 20:23 +, robert burrell donkin wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 19:13 +, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > > Reposted (edited) from original commons proposal. > > Currently this proposal has general, though not unanimous, support. > > A vote thread may follow this thread if th