One point against this is that we have had a long-standing user list, and it is the developer list that is new and growing. People are use to the user list already. If we are going to combine the two then I suggest we have a -user list now and let the developers grow out of that.
Rob On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 08:16 +0100, Dan Haywood wrote: > Isis mentors: > Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, > should we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined mailing list > for -dev and -user? > Dan > > On 08/09/2010 08:10, Martijn Dashorst wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Stein<gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacks<matt...@matthewsacks.com>wrote: > >>> ... > >>> *Mailing Lists* > >>> > >>> kitty-dev > >>> kitty-commits > >>> kitty-user > >>> > >> Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the > >> community across dev/user does not make sense. You want to keep the users > >> and developers on the same mailing list until one starts to overwhelm the > >> other. By partitioning the lists too early, you risk never reaching > >> "critical mass" on *either* mailing list. > > This is actually great advice, and I wish we'd done this with a couple > > of podlings that are currently too small to graduate. > > > > In retrospect empire-db and etch really could have done without the > > user- list IMO. > > > > Martijn > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
