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On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 11:00, Noah Slater wrote: > I agree. > > If erlang@ becomes the place where newbie questions about Erlang go > ignored, we should can the list. > > You requested examples: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-marketing/ > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cloudstack-marketing/ > > Andy, how about two review dates? Six months, and then 12 months. > > Let's review *all* lists on these dates. > > On 4 February 2014 11:52, Benoit Chesneau <bchesn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > Nick, I don't think you are filibustering. You raise a good point that > > > has not come up yet. > > > > > > > > > actually I already raised it. And took the Erlang ml as an example of a > > very little traffic list. The advocacy list on postgresql, is also very > > little used. Even it was created 10 years ago. > > > > > > > > > > Namely: what do we consider to be the success criteria of mailing > > > lists? And perhaps more importantly: what are the failure criteria? > > > > > > Here's my attempt at answering those questions. > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > These are good points that actually can be applied to this erlang list. It > > is too soon to say the same for the others though. > > > > Anyway, This is why I think it's important to see what happen in other > > projects so we can anticipate what could happen. At least try to > > anticipate. Anticipation and planning are generally a good way to minimize > > failures. I mentionned some. > > > > - benoit > > > > -- > Noah Slater > https://twitter.com/nslater > >
