On 4 February 2014 11:45, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > Success criteria: > > - The mailing lists are occasionally used, and when questions are > posted there, replies are received. > - People who might not otherwise have been active start to become active. > > Failure criteria: > > - Mails posted to the list go unread/un-responded to. > - Something important for the whole community was missed because it > was happening away from the dev@ list. > > It's important to remember how mailing lists form at Apache. The dev@ > list is *the* list. Every other mailing list, including user@ is > optional, and is spun out at the behest of the community. >
This is a good list of criteria. I am +1 on creating the list and measure it's success from these criteria. We just need to decide after which time the measurement has to be done. Cheers Andy -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! http://www.couchdb-buch.de http://www.pg-praxisbuch.de GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc