Uh, Yeah, I'm in! Thank you for your consideration.
- James. On Jul 4, 5:46 pm, "T.J. Crowder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The chorus of "ayes" being conspicuously absent from the original > thread [1], I'm guessing that buried deep in a thread wasn't the best > place to propose a timetable for starting the new group and asking for > replies. So, quoting from that thread: > > << Hi all, > > I've been pursuing this new group thing behind the scenes with Tobie > and the core team. And apparently I'm not the only one who thinks the > spam has gotten just ridiculous. As you may know, we were sort of > holding off moving to the new group until A) We could locate and > contact the owner of this group so we could modify its description > (etc.) to point to the new one, and B) Until we finished and posted a > new FAQ to prototypejs.org which would (among other things) mention > the new group. Frankly, both of them have been holding things up. > > But! Good news on both fronts. Tobie has finally succeeded (after > much effort) in contacting an owner/manager of this group (DHH, in > fact), and I've taken kangax's stuff, Tobie's outline, a few of my own > ideas, and gotten together a draft FAQ. No major comments in a week, > so it's now just pending Andrew doing some final edits to it, and then > one of the core team will post it to the site. We already have enough > volunteers to be moderators on the new group (and many, many thanks to > the folks who've come forward) so we can cut way down on spam. > > So here's my recommendation: > > * 6 July 2008 (or soon thereafter): Post the FAQ. > * 6 July 2008: "Open" the new group (it's currently hidden to avoid > confusion), announce it in a thread here, and allow discussions in > both places while suggesting that new threads get posted to the new > group (but still answering them here if they're posted her). Start > moving any ongoing discussions to the new group. > * 15 July 2008: Stop answering questions here. If someone posts > here, we'll just tell them to repost to the new group (that can mostly > be done by doing a standard footer that goes on all messages). Edit > the description of this group to redirect people to the new group. > * 15 August 2008: Close this group entirely to new posts. > > Here are the details of the new group -- we still have time to change > the URL/email address if people want, but as we say here in the UK, it > does what it says on the box: > > New group name: Prototype & script.aculo.us > URL:http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous > Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > All in favor of the above say aye! >> > > So far we have ayes on the timetable and such (there's no question > about *whether* to do it) from: > * Myself > * Ryan Gahl > * Trevan Richins > * Justin Perkins > * Walter Lee Davis (I think) > > I'd like to see a few more ayes from high-profile posters before > moving forward; seems important that we be pretty broadly in agreement > on when to make the transition... > -- > T.J. Crowder > tj / crowder software / com > > [1]http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs/browse_thread/thr... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
