Marvin, Nice work. +1
Craig On Jul 2, 2013, at 6:59 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: >> Hey Marvin, >> >> Did you get anywhere with this? > > Finally, yes. I've written up the subject on the Incubator wiki and linked to > it from the proposal guide. > > https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/MailingListOptions > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html#template-mailing-lists > > I'm having second thoughts about where it should live permanently, though. > The Incubator's documentation could withstand some reorganization and I'm > contemplating some proposals which I'll put forth in a little while. > > Marvin Humphrey > >> On 30 March 2013 15:39, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> 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. >>> >>> The obvious place to patch is the descriptive paragraph here: >>> >>> http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html#template-mailing-lists >>> >>> However, I question whether decisions about mailing lists should be made by >>> the small group that typically works up a proposal. Why not start off with >>> just a dev list and have the entire community participate in discussions >>> about what additional mailing lists to add? >>> >>> * Do we need a user@ list yet? >>> * Where should commit notifications be sent? >>> * Where should issue tracker notifications be sent? >>> * Should we add an announce@ list? >>> >>> These questions all have interesting implications with regard to community >>> dynamics, and I think it would benefit podlings to be considering them >>> early on. >>> >>> So, I'd like to propose a page describing the various mailing list choices >>> that top-level Apache projects have made and the tradeoffs, which I >>> volunteer to write and which I think ought to live on community.a.o rather >>> than incubator.a.o. >>> >>> Once that page is live, I propose that we modify the proposal template so >>> that the default is only a dev list. Mailing list expansion then becomes >>> part of the incubation curriculum, along with code import, header change, >>> preparation of a release management procedure, making a release, recruiting >>> new contributors/committers/PMC-members, and so on. >>> >>> Marvin Humphrey >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> >> -- >> NS > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > Craig L Russell Architect, Oracle http://db.apache.org/jdo 408 276-5638 mailto:craig.russ...@oracle.com P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
