+1 on deprecating Containers group +1 on deprecating Community group
On Jan 15, 12:41 pm, Arne Roomann-Kurrik <[email protected]> wrote: > It's been one of my goals to revisit the current OpenSocial groups > structure to see if we can optimize things for the current level of > traffic and support available. This post is to notify you of some > changes coming soon if you visit the groups interface via the web > (email posters should be unaffected): > > Splitting groups > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The first and biggest change will be that each of the subgroups in the > current forum will be split off into their own individual groups (this > is done mostly for backend reasons). The URLs for each individual > group will continue to be: > > Application Development:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-api > Container:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-container > Specification:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-and-gadgets-spec > Community:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-community > Board:http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-board > > Our intent is to link heavily between the groups, and from > opensocial.org, so that navigating to a specific group should continue > to be easy. > > Deprecating the containers group > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The "Implementing OpenSocial Containers" group is low traffic and > consists mostly of questions that are better asked on specific mailing > lists (Shindig, Partuza, etc). Our intention is to put the group into > "archive-only" mode, and to link to the appropriate mailing lists from > the group landing page. New posts will be automatically rejected. > > Possibly deprecating the community group > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > OpenSocial has its own community website in opensocial.org. In order > to foster interaction on that site, I'm proposing that we close down > the community mailing list in favor of the events and forum features > on opensocial.org. Naturally, this may be more of a controversial > change, so if you have any feedback, please let me know (by responding > to this thread). > > The OpenSocial Application Development, OpenSocial and Gadgets > Specification Discussion, and OpenSocial Board groups will continue to > operate normally. By paring down the unnecessary groups, we're hoping > that it will be easier to follow the discussion around OpenSocial in > the future, and simplify the admin and support tasks of the group > managers. > > Please respond to this message if you have any comments or questions. > > Cheers, > ~Arne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Implementing OpenSocial Containers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-container?hl=en.
