On 12 Aug 2011, at 02:41, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/08/2011, at 10:25, "Dennis E. Hamilton" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> +1 on putting materials like the suggested list-post subject categories on >>> the community wiki. I see no reason why it needs to be maintained anywhere >>> else requiring higher ceremony. >>> > > No one is going to find it on the wiki. The new list subscriber, > signing up on the list, is typically going to find the list from this > page: > > http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html > > That is where the mailing list info is, the instructions on how to > subscribe. That is also where we point to other mailing list > guidelines. It is an ideal place to put the suggested topic tags, > putting the mailing list info together in one place.
How about adding a link from there to the wiki? > > If topic tags are changing at so rapid a rate that updating the > website for them is inconvenient, then we're probably misusing them. > If they are meant to be hints to human readers, then they can be fluid > and change frequently and allow small variations, like Twitter tags. > In that case, there is no need to document them. Subscribers learn > the "folksonomy" by observation. But if they are being used for email > inbox filter rules, hard coded into subscriber mail clients, then > these better be relatively fixed and we lose nothing by putting them > on the website. > > >>> - Dennis >>> >> >> +1 >> >> Jean >> >> >>
