I totally agree with this view Gordon, I guess that's obvious as I
suspect your post was at least partly precipitated by my comments on
proton and how it relates to qpid.
I think that your comment about subject line filtering is a fair one and
agree about the Jira commit notices comment but I for one would find it
useful to see what's happening in the round. I guess to be fair I could
have subscribed to the dev list but that itself didn't seem obvious to
me given what I *mostly* do.
I think that having a single list also gives better sight of who the
"players" are and what their interests are in. As it happens it's
probably yourself who has the highest visibility out of the core Qpid
development team and I only see a few of the other names occasionally on
the users list. Clearly there are plenty of people beavering away in dev
land but I'm sure that there are a good few on this list who have
opinions on a fair range of topics - I know I have, especially around
QMF :-)
so definitely a +1 from me
On 18/01/13 17:21, Gordon Sim wrote:
I believe that we have too many mailing lists and that we are missing
out on valuable collaboration and transparency as a result.
Too often in the past topics have been discussed on the dev list
without reflecting any of the discussion back to the user list,
keeping a large part of the community in the dark. Now that we have a
distinct list for proton there is the possibility of yet more
fragmentation.
I honestly believe that we would be better off with just one list for
discussions. I think there will increasingly be issues that cross-cut
different components or that would benefit from wider participation.
Not all topics will be of interest to all subscribers, but that is
always going to be the case.
It doesn't seem to me like any of the lists are so high in volume that
this would cause significant problems. More rigorous use of subject
could help people filter if needed. (JIRA and commit notices I think
do warrant their own lists allowing a lot of the 'noise' to be avoided
if so desired).
Any other thoughts on this? Does anyone have fears of being deluged
with unwanted emails?
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