On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 09:57, Simon Schampijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 6:05 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 1. Create [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. We have discussed >>> this a few time over the last few months. Now that we are getting >>> distro (other the OLPC) related comments the time seems right
+1 >>> 2. Create [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. This will focus >>> on activity developer related issues. >> >> Are there strong reasons to separate the two lists? (Morgan seem to be >> making a different recommendation). >> >> Marco > > Yeah it is only meant as a way to notify the activity authors. An > announcement list: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Morgs/Activities_survey/Recommendations#Mailing_Lists > > All the rest of the discussion is going to the sugar-ml. > > Best, > Simon > > PS: some will argue that you can use headers for that as well - but from > morgan's survey I think we saw that this was the best way to go. My original proposal was to have a list dedicated to activity development. There was a lot of feedback on that suggesting that we should continue to use the sugar list for development discussion so as not to fragment the community. What I got out of the survey is that we need a way for activity developers to unsubscribe from the high-traffic lists but still get relevant notifications. A high percentage of these developers don't have the time to keep up with the daily traffic about the platform, but are missing the information that they need. For example, I'm not confident of reaching them all (including those that didn't answer the survey) with the survey results unless I mail them individually. Therefore I think a [EMAIL PROTECTED] list (which we used briefly at the start of the Sugar 0.82 cycle) is more relevant to them than an activities-specific list. It could also be used for packagers who only want to see major announcements (e.g. 0.82.1 released) and not the development discussion traffic. I have just noticed that there is a new [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, which must be new and unannounced since it's had precisely one mail to it: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2008-August/thread.html I do think we need it to be a sugarlabs list because the activity developers need to keep up with the Sugar platform more than the OLPC distro platform (with the exception of Rainbow I guess). What I want to get to now is finality on what I can go back to the activity authors and advise them. Remember that we have activity developers who are not using git hosting, who don't have XOs, and may only be using jhbuild or distro packages to develop and test their activities. I suggest: * subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and use to request git hosting on dev.laptop.org and discuss XO-specific issues (optional for activity developers) * subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to discuss the sugar platform development and activity development (recommended) * subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to receive notifications of the things I listed at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Morgs/Activities_survey/Recommendations#Mailing_Lists (essential) Regards Morgan _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
