Hi Dave, I collected stats for 2019 and the average # of posts per month is 15 with wide variability from 0 to 50 per month.
One concern about consolidating the traffic onto dev@ is that I think a number of new users might hesitate to submit naive questions on the developer list because they don't view themselves as developers and don't want to intrude. A list labeled as "users" clearly includes new users and I think would be more friendly. A second issue is separation of traffic. For example, our science members are not in a position to support new users and I would prefer to give them the option of not signing up for the users@ traffic. An additional thought is that if we set up the users@ list now we would not have to migrate them out of the dev@ list later and we wouldn't have to have all our users do yet another migration. I'd like to hear from some other folks about these issues. Lee. On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 10:50 AM Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi - > > What types of discussions are frequent on the google group? How many posts > are typical? > > It might be good to coalesce the community on the dev@ until there are > clearly enough users and volume of email to need a users@ mailing list. > > Regards, > Dave > > On Feb 6, 2020, at 1:22 PM, leerho <[email protected]> wrote: > > Folks, > > This is a call for a vote on the following: > > I propose that we deprecate the Google Groups > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sketches-user> forum and direct > users to a newly created users@ email list. > > The steps would be as follows: > > 1. Create a new [email protected] email list. > 2. Clearly mark the existing Google Groups site as deprecated and > direct users to the new list. > 3. Update all references to the Google Groups site on our web site and > repository READMEs to the new list. > > This vote will be performed in one stage: > - This letter will be published on dev@ and remain open for at least > 72 hours and at least 3 (+1) PPMC votes or a majority of (+1) are acquired. > All PPMC members including Mentors can vote. > > Please vote accordingly: > > [ ] +1 approve > [ ] +0 no opinion > [ ] -1 disapprove with the reason > > Thanks, > Lee Rhodes > [email protected] > > >
