So do it. I put the link up for POI on this page:
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html but I was afraid of
retribution if I put it up for others.
-Andy
Costin Manolache wrote:
On a related issue - I think it would be very nice to include a link to
gmane news gateway. There are quite a few people using it ( I'm no
longer directly subscribed to any list ), and I think it should be at
least mentioned.
I don't know if a news server taking the feed for US distribution or our
list mirrors is possible - I can help setting it up if there is enough
interest (and resources).
Costin
( and if you know someone at google who can get the feed into their
news archives - we would solve the search issue very well :-)
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 12:01, Chuck Murcko wrote:
I've noticed in looking around the Apache sites that there's a lot of
inconsistency in providing links (usually in the sidebars) where people
can get on the mailing lists. Some projects, like Foundation, HTTP
Server, Cocoon and Forrest, provide wide gateways for participation.
Big, friendly, colorful, clearly marked links. Many have "Getting
Involved" sidebars that link to lists of things, and the mailing lists
are in there. Some befuddled me in attempts to find any mailing lists at
all without going to the project's main page. "Home" != "Get Involved"
to me.
I speculate that one factor in the breadth and quality of development
community is the number of clicks it takes to find the -dev list, the
general navigation semantics of the site, and the amount of camouflage
those links have, whether on purpose (in the case of Jakarta it sure
seems that I am being forced to read the guidelines and then be clever
enough to notice the link - no bypassing Mom on this page!) or not.
Is this just driven by the number of config questions and "suscribe"
(and other) trolls to the dev lists? Or the rising percentage of
doofuses in the net world? I knew we should never have let AOL hook up
that gateway to the net. 8^)
I ask because I'm laying out a Jakarta project site, and I'm used to the
-dev list guidelines being something short and sweet, like "lurk a bit
before jumping in, and search the archives to see if your question (if
that's the only reason you're here) has been answered".
Or maybe I should just point users to
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html, and say "Read before posting; if
you don't, YMMV widely". I presume all here have read that.
Just MHO on a community issue.
Chuck
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