Hi Devs - A few years ago we decided to collapse the Dev@fineract.apache.org and us...@fineract.apache.org listservs to have one place for discussions.
This had the advantage of reducing the number of lists one needed to subscribe to. The disadvantage is that we may - from time to time - get users who simply want to know how to "run the software" and "how to use the software" rather than "how to set up the dev environment", "how to describe an issue in a ticket", "how to make a code contribution", or "go deep into technical discussion abc". I'd like to offer two proposals for discussion: 1) Set up us...@fineract.apache.org and encourage users to move over there with questions - keep this separate; obviously can be viewed or subscribed to by anyone. Hold a regular "user meeting" to establish some good Q&A for users. We would want to have a few Contributors on the list to answer questions and generally move that conversation along. Alongside us...@fineract.apache.org would be some wiki pages to orient the users. With this, d...@fineract.org becomes more focused on development practices, tickets, commits, engineering design discussions. alternatively: 2) Direct newcomers and users to a page on the wiki where we link to various resources, including outside resources. When a person signs up for the listserv, or shows up, we ask them to first go through those resources, and if they still have questions for Dev, then we encourage that. I believe that coming to the project cold can be quite baffling. This is a DISCUSS thread, meaning please comment. Quick reactions could be: +1 Like it 0 No opinion or neutral -1 Don't like it. Thanks, @jdailey
