Nice. Thanks Marvin!
On 3 July 2013 06:00, Craig L Russell <craig.russ...@oracle.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- NS
