Hi Chris, On May 5, 2012, at 8:05 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote:
>>> 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. Currently the initial target audience for airavata are project groups and I can see there will one or two developers in those groups but many more want just be users. I feel the dev mail-list traffic might loose attention, a low traffic and focused user discussions might make these users speak up and provide valuable feedback. This is just an optional thought and I would like to hear others opinions as well on what might work better for projects like Airavata. Thanks, Suresh
