Hey Suresh, Yeah no worries like I said, in the end, I thought a users@ list made sense for OODT, and I think for Airavata it probably does too. But I just wanted to pass that info along as it was passed to me :)
Cheers, Chris On May 5, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Suresh Marru wrote: > 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 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
