On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Robert Osfield wrote:
Proposal of a osg-???? volunteer mailing list:
This second mailing list was seen as important, but at the time we
couldn't come up with a sensible and appropriate name. This role of
this list would be as a place for those volunteers that help put
together the OSG releases and binary distributions and maintain
website, servers and services etc. This list would hopefully help us
coordinate getting things done that need doing and covering for each
other when a volunteer is unavailable.
How about osg-dist? This name implies distributions, but could also apply
to the website and other infrastructure discussion.
So we discussed this topic, and there wasn't any real drive that
osg-users was a problem as it is. The project has matured and the
user base has grown but over the past year traffic has stabilised.
Another factor is that as the community grows so does the number of
developers. The percentage of contributors vs users has actually
slighty increased from 13% to 14% over the last year, so as new users
join osg-users, so new contributiors arise not long after. To me
this shows that as a community there isn't a them and us when it comes
to users and developers, we are all developers and users there isn't
any real division. I believe this is a good thing to recognise this
and keep everybody together as one big happy family.
I agree that there is little need to separate out users from developers.
I would think that most of us are both. OSG is, after all, a graphics
library.
The gist of the discussion on this topic were basically "Some people
prefer forums some mailing lists" and that having one point of support
was crucial for efficiency of the core developers/support crew. The
only way to reconcile this is to have a system that allows you to use
a forum or a mailing list, but with the content from both going in and
out as one source.
I will not use a forum. As long as the mailing list still works, I'll be
happy.
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