Who exactly decides what s appropritate and what s not ? If one dont like a given topic she should just ignore it. Simple s that. Personally I dont like the idea of telling people what and where they should or should not write stuff.
2012/6/18 John Fletcher <fletch...@gmail.com> > 2012/6/15 Jeffry Houser <jef...@dot-com-it.com>: > > > > I don't believe I was being unfriendly. This is mailing list explicitly > > related to building the Apache Flex SDK. Your experiences / pains on > > building HTML apps has no place here. > > +1 Jeffry. > > No-one is trying to attack the OP nor the ensuing participants in the > discussion, so let's take out the personal side. Questioning what is > appropriate content for this mailing list is valid. > > It's fair to say that there were many such discussions on this list > about 3-6 months ago, for example discussions along the lines of "Is > Flex dead?" Initially I was interested but later I almost unsubscribed > a number of times. I just want to be kept up to date with the main > points of development like the JIRA import, 4.8 release, how to > compile and run the latest apache Flex version, how to contribute, > general direction and feelings of the development team. To solve my > own problem I even almost suggested a "dev announcements" list or > similar where people like me could hear about the important stuff and > none of the fluff. What kept me subscribed is the fact that in the > last few months I felt the conversation increasingly narrowing to the > critical points and there was less of the sideline discussion. But how > many others like me have already unsubscribed? > > This is a fairly high-traffic list. We want to attract the maximum > amount of people who are really interested in contributing to > subscribe, because I think people that are subscribed are more likely > to contribute and in particular are more likely to contribute quality > because they are in touch with the latest info. But the high-traffic > nature of the list is discouraging to people whose time is short > and/or valuable. The best way to solve this is to keep the content > highly focussed. > > What is the stated purpose of this list? Currently: "This is where the > project community hangs out. This list is used to coordinate > activities and ensure we are all pulling in the same direction. This > is a high traffic list." This description is quite vague (particularly > the first sentence) and therefore permits the post that kicked off > this discussion. I would recommend tightening this description. And > the easist way to enforce it is to have a specific place to send the > non-conforming discussions. Since we have a "Flex Users" list with an > even more permissive description (essentially "to discuss Flex"), this > would seem like the ideal place to redirect discussions which don't > fit our tight description. > > If people would like to participate in discussions about Flex > development AND Flex in general, then they can subscribe to both > lists. If not, just subscribe to one. Everyone is happy. > > John >
