Thanks Greg. Sane advice. I'll add this to my todo list and see if I can come up with a patch for the docs.
On 28 March 2013 06:50, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > >... > > I don't believe we should force an announce@ list on anybody. But I do > > think it might be a good idea to mention a few of the standard lists that > > projects might consider requesting. > > No strong opinion. Generally, I don't think podlings have much to > announce. A few releases, at most, before they graduate. IMO, just put > those on announce@ and be done with it. > > Large communities arriving at the Incubator could certainly do well > with an announce@. But new/small projects? Not so much. > > > user@, dev@, announce@, etc. commits@ is required. When you're community > > grows, you may want to consider tickets@, and general@, etc. CloudStack > had > > marketing@ before we graduated, even. > > Note: as mentioned else-thread, we strongly discourage a users@ > mailing list for podlings. (or more precisely, those building *new* > communities) > > >> Oh, and while we are at it: some a.o projects have > >> users@project.a.o(plural) > and others have user@project.a.o(singular). We should at least unify this > for the upcoming podlings pretty > >> please ;) > > > > Sounds sensible. > > Agreed. I took a quick look on mail-archive.a.o, and it appears that > user@ is more popular than users@ (185 vs 76). > > (bummer, cuz svn uses users@ ...) > > Cheers, > -g > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- NS
