Hi Suresh, On May 5, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Suresh Marru wrote:
> > On May 4, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > >> Hey Suresh, >> >> While I have no strong opinion either way on this, in the past, the Apache >> sages that mentored my projects >> have suggested that having a users list in Incubation is pretty much net >> zero value -- just wanted to pass this >> along. >> >> And to be perfectly clear, I'm +1 to have a users mailing list. But wanted >> you to know what others have told me >> in the past about it during Incubation. > > Thanks Chris for chiming in. Can you also please also pass the downsides you > were told of having a user list during incubation? On a quick surfing through > incubator websites I see very less projects are having user lists but > couldn't get why. No problem. The advice I got was that during Incubation you're not sure exactly who your users are -- that is, a lot of times they are the devs themselves b/c there is so much momentum and change, compared to a TLP. I think it honestly depends on the type/style of project, but I did get the whole point of not adding "yet another list" YAL. :) It requires more moderators, more overhead for infra@, etc. Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
