hi, On 8 November 2011 15:58, Donald Whytock <dwhyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:48 PM, eric b <eric.bach...@free.fr> wrote: >> As a compromise, what about to create ooo-disc...@incubator.apache.org ? > > We could certainly move all the name-calling there... > > At the moment, though, policy issues, legal issues and the like are > still development issues simply because the precedents haven't yet > been set. So what would be talked about on ooo-discuss that wouldn't > have an impact here? > > Or would that be a place for those discussions that take on a life of > their own, such that someone says, "Okay, let's take this to > ooo-discuss", whereupon it gets hashed out and comes back here with a > [Proposal]? >
In OOo-land, discuss list conversations were often initiated (if not always) by non-developers expressing wishes, comments, complaints or other OT stuff, though that latter was limited. Developers intervened and explained and invariably politely explicated what was what. However, that was the old OOo site. The new Apache one has a stronger developer focus. It's not as much a discursive site as the old. So, I tend, using that logic, to favour a purely dev@ list focused on development. But there remains the problem—or virtue—of the non-developer contributor whose contributions are immensely valuable and include not just localizations, but also extensions, templates, etc. etc., that make OOo as usable as it is (and would make it even more usable). Where these discussions take place is the question. -louis > Don >
