It is a little pitiful to leave this list :_-( :-) ... but I believe that the exposed reasons for merging have sense.
+1 dvdgmz. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Martien<martien.van.steenber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 for merging > > dreamwish: Semantic Google Wave > > On Jul 14, 7:24 pm, Yaron Koren <yaro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I've had the thought over the last few months to get rid of this mailing >> list/Google group, and move all discussions about Semantic Forms over to the >> two Semantic MediaWiki mailing lists: semediawiki-user (for users), and >> semediawiki-devel (for developers). >> >> When this list was started about two years ago, Semantic Forms was a very >> new and rather buggy extension for SMW; at this point, it's in use on I >> believe something like 80% of active SMW installations. It's still buggy, :) >> but the posts on the list are less about bugs now and more about usage and >> feature requests. So you could say that the SF mailing list has been a >> victim of its own success: due to the technical improvements and community >> support that the mailing list has enabled, SF has become a stable part of >> what people consider to be SMW, and thus there's less of a need to have a >> separate discussion area. >> >> If you're curious, you can see the monthly volume of emails on the three >> lists here: >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms/about >> >> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=semediawiki-user >> >> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=semediawiki-d... >> >> There are currently about 100 messages a month to the SF mailing list, and a >> slightly higher number of the semediawiki-user list, and about 50 a month on >> the semediawiki-devel list. Altogether, I don't think getting rid of this >> list would overwhelm the other two, especially since (a) some emails are >> sent to both the SF and SMW-user list, and (b) other questions sent to the >> SF list are really about SMW or one of the other extensions. >> >> I see a number of advantages in moving everything to the two SMW mailing >> lists: >> 1. one less mailing list for users to join >> 2. reduced confusion about which mailing list to write to for which >> questions, especially the borderline cases, such as anything to do with >> templates >> 3. makes it clearer that Semantic Forms is a part of the SMW world, as >> opposed to some specialized application >> 4. increases the feeling of a single SMW community, that one can address all >> of at the same time >> 5. allows separation of emails about Semantic Forms development from those >> about SF usage, since they'd now be on separate lists >> >> On the other hand, I can think of two disadvantages: >> >> 1. it increases email volume to people who really only want to be on one >> list or the other. There may be people on this list who don't want to get >> general emails about SMW (though I think that would be a mistake); and of >> course there will be people on the semediawiki-user list who aren't >> interested in SF. I should note that, even if people on this list think it's >> a good idea, I would still need to get permission from the SMW mailing list >> people, so the second one is really a separate issue. >> 2. the SMW mailing lists have a pretty shoddy track record of accepting >> emails from new users - sometimes emails wait for a week or longer before >> getting confirmed. I probably won't do the move unless I can get myself and >> the other administrators of this list to be made administrators of the SMW >> lists as well; which would hopefully speed things up quite a bit. >> >> And there might be more I haven't thought of. Any thoughts? >> >> -Yaron > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Semantic Forms" group. To post to this group, send email to semantic-forms@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to semantic-forms+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-forms?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
