Josh, It is definitely up to flexcoders as a group to make these decision - not me for sure. I did suggest separate group on "best practices" and I do not think you can separate UI best practices in Front-end tool - but I might assume much.
"Enterprise" in Flex is reasonably well defined - anything that is based on commercial LCDS + typical tasks for enterprises - portals integration, large team management, scalability, and whatever else. Basically people usually know if they are working in enterprise and would use their judgement. The same goes for 101 - people often know if they are within the first 6 month. 101 presumes that there is FAQ thread somewhere, and hopefully WiKi with repeated questions. It also gives Adobe better idea what new developers have problem with and they can make product more intuitive for new developers. As far as scaring people - my post clearly states that at this point new developers scare experienced ones instead of letting people work together. With smaller groups it is possible to get moderators. Take a look at weborb, every message you send gets to developers blackberry, but quite a few are answered by experienced developers that are in that group for quite some time. With smaller groups and defined target audience you can provide better targeted answers that would suite that community better. As far as better inbox management - I would love to hear about something that works - but I have not seen anything that would do 10 way split for me. Sincerely Anatole Tartakovsky Farata Systems On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Josh McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Define "enterprise" without resorting to some variation of "mo' bettah" > > What about best practices in Flex UI coding? Where do those posts go? > > And who decides what posts go in the "advanced" lists, and what go in the > "101" list? Sounds like an invitation for grumpy nerds to flame noobs and > scare them away from the community... > > I'm not suggesting we don't split the list at all, just that we put some > serious thought into it first. Definitions of what belongs in what group, > and a lot of publicly available information to help people locate the best > list for their question. Maybe have some sort of community vote or > something; we don't want to fracture the community, there's not *that* many > of us yet. > > Personally I think the problems are at the moment best solved by clever > inbox management. > > -Josh > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Anatole Tartakovsky < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> Flexcoders has huge problem. In the last 15 month it is very much >> stagnant in terms of message count and participation. It is not growing and >> dropping members as fast as it gets them. >> >> I believe this group has overgrown the optimal size about a year ago >> and needs to be divided in more focused smaller groups. My mail box get 100+ >> messages a day on all kinds of topic - unless I can spend 30+ minutes that >> day to sort them out it goes directly into garbage can. Most people in the >> company unsubscribed from it 18 month ago. Most of veteran developers I know >> either unsubscribed or stopped looking in this mess greatly diminishing the >> quality of the responses. As a result group mostly host new developers and >> looses most of experienced ones after very short period of time. >> >> Further delay of breaking this group hinders usefulness of the group for >> all of us as now we have significant amount of users that are being forced >> out. I believe it is time to archive flexcoders and branch (12?) targeted >> new user groups >> >> I would like to see people suggesting user subgroups and WiKi topics for >> Flex community site to go with each group - providing best posts in more >> systematic way. >> >> I suggest the following Yahoo groups ( created couple for your >> convenience). >> >> Flex101: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flex101/ >> >> Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> EnterpriseFlex: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/enterpriseflex/ >> >> Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> FlexUI >> FlexDesign >> >> FlexSDK >> FlexDeployment >> >> FlexFlash >> >> FlexFrameworks >> >> FlexBestPractices >> >> EnterpriseFlex: >> >> FlexBlazeDS: >> >> weborb: >> >> Sincerely, >> Anatole Tartakovsky >> Farata Systems >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." > > :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald > :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
