I agree that participants on discuss@oo.o should be invited to come to ooo-users@i.a.o.
Can we be more diplomatic in our announcements over there? The one at users@oo.o on creation of the ooo-users@i.a.o list did not go over very well and was a lightning rod for some vocal participants there. This is rather disturbing to me because it doesn't all depend on actions under the Apache Software Foundation. I also don't believe we have an agreed outcome on any preservation of the openoffice.org operation and having either a brute-force or a gentler migration approach. So that announcement was perhaps too heavy-handed, asserting facts not [yet] in evidence. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Peter Junge [mailto:peter.ju...@gmx.org] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 20:57 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Should w merge discuss@ooo into ooo-users.i.a.o ? On 03.09.2011 11:00, Rob Weir wrote: > I've been going through the archives of the existing > us...@openoffice.org and disc...@openoffice.org. I cannot tell them > apart. They cover the kinds of questions and topics. Maybe at some > point in the past the project had distinct visions for each list. But > this differences are blurred beyond detection now, at least to me. Originally discuss@ooo was intended to be the mailing list for the community to discuss about the community, hence both focusing on a different topic and addressing a different audience. Over the years discuss@ooo indeed became something like users2@ooo. [...] > > Since we've recently set up the ooo-users@i.a.o, I think it makes > sense to ask users from both users@ooo and discuss@ooo to move to > ooo-users. In doing so we avoid unnecessarily fragmenting community > discussions. That would make sense, at least for those who are used to discuss support topics at discuss@ooo. The few others should be happy with ooo-dev. Peter
