On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 6:10 PM Patricia Shanahan <[email protected]> wrote:
> One danger that I don't know how to solve: In trying to reach as many > people as possible you will bombard many of us with multiple e-mails. Undoubtedly, but like many here, I'll end up seeing only one message. > I am subscribed to [email protected], members@, committers@, two PMC > private lists, and the corresponding dev@lists. I'm going to get about 7 > copies, and some people are subscribed to a lot more than 2 projects. > As a suggestion, committers@ are direct emails, which should entirely overlap the subset of everyone subscribed to members@ and private@ (therefore including the pmcs@ superset), and those members@ and private@ lists do not add value if the entire committers@ base will be solicited. So let's please not duplicate. Worried someone is filtering their committers@ traffic? Do we want to include other /active/ contributors who are not yet committers? Then it seems the dev@ lists are the most effective way to add people. But it might improve the situation if the initial committers@ appeal does include some text like the following; > This survey seeks the input of any Apache "contributor", even those > who are not committers. We seek your help to extend this invitation > with those who have contributed in some way to the projects you > participate in, or perhaps share with your communities' dev@ or > users@ list. For the message to come from a respected member of the project means that even though people will see multiple copies, these direct appeals will probably encourage more participation, especially by external contributors, but also perhaps by committers.
