Kenn, Thanks for your suggestion about the alias -- great idea. But how do we link Slack and StackOverflow to user@ ? I did some searching on Slack to see if there was some configuration to automatically transcribe the messages there directly to an Apache mail list, but I could not find any way to do that. I don't know anything about how StackOverflow works.
Lee. On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 8:42 PM Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 - thanks for surfacing the reasoning on the dev@ list. > > Regards, > Dave > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 6, 2020, at 11:24 PM, Kenneth Knowles <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 to the proposal > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 8:22 PM Kenneth Knowles <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For the transition: You could add an auto reply to the Google Group with >> a convenient link to mailto:[email protected] and >> leave the group for a while, or indefinitely. >> >> From experience, I think Lee is right: many people are shy about writing >> to dev@ even when they are well-qualified and have very clear and good >> questions to contribute. TBH they are also shy about writing to user@ in >> many cases. Users show up in Slack and StackOverflow too. Worth considering >> how to tie these together to include all these different sorts of users. >> But I am also on the side of establishing a user@ mailing list early. >> For Beam, it has always had much less traffic (recently dev@ was 5x user@) >> but still is a valuable resource for those who use it. >> >> If consensus becomes apparent, a mentor can set up user@/users@ >> (definitely go with an alias for both here). >> >> Kenn >> >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 1:39 PM Eric Bax <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Approve >>> >>> >>> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone >>> <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/?.src=iOS> >>> >>> On Thursday, February 6, 2020, 10:22 AM, 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] >>> >>>
