I'm thinking that might be a good idea to use '[SF]' in the subject of SemanticForms related messages in SMW list, this will allow us to distinguish them from others.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Yaron Koren<yaro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alright, thanks for all the feeback (Dan - haha!). So, it looks like this > mailing list may be coming to an end soon. Patrick - you raised an > interesting point about SourceForge - I had always assumed that the slowness > of emails on the SMW lists was due to the admins not handling stuff quickly, > but maybe they're just technical issues. I'm waiting to hear back now from > the SMW admins about that and other issues - I'll let everyone know. > > -Yaron > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:20 AM, David Gómez <dvd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
