Another good idea. Thanks! Lee.
On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 11:13 AM Evans Ye <[email protected]> wrote: > +1! > > | 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. > > I think it helps to migrate the users by putting up a deadline which is > the date to set the forum to be read-only alongside with the new users@ > message. After that date users can still read previous discussions, but > can't post a new one. > > Evans > > leerho <[email protected]> 於 2020年2月7日 週五 下午2:36寫道： > >> 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] >>>>> >>>>>
