Mailman does allow 'topics' to be configured... perhaps a general 'extensions' topic would be better than a specific sf one?
2009/7/16 David Gómez <dvd...@gmail.com>: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
