Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
On 9/10/2010 11:25 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: For reference: * Subversion created its dev list in April 2000. * The user list was created in July 2003. 238 messages were posted that month. As you can see, we waited a very long time before sending users to their own list. Our dev list was very heavily trafficked by our users. It kept the larger community together until the point where they could safely work on their own. I think my post at the time gives light as to why we waited so long and why I felt it was time for the user list to be created: http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2003-07/1363.shtml BTW, those 238 messages in July all came in 10 days... =P -- justin Training users to actually move to the users@ list in 10 days in and of itself is pretty amazing :) Agreed that this is not appropriate for the typical incubator project, both my own mod_aspdotnet podling and those such as stdcxx or lokahi would have done better on just one [public] list. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: For reference: * Subversion created its dev list in April 2000. * The user list was created in July 2003. 238 messages were posted that month. As you can see, we waited a very long time before sending users to their own list. Our dev list was very heavily trafficked by our users. It kept the larger community together until the point where they could safely work on their own. I think my post at the time gives light as to why we waited so long and why I felt it was time for the user list to be created: http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2003-07/1363.shtml BTW, those 238 messages in July all came in 10 days... =P -- justin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
I'm with James on this one. Many good points have been made on this, but we do have bigger things to worry about. On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 08:06 -0400, James Carman wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:39 AM, dan haywood d...@haywood-associates.co.uk wrote: For the moment at least the dev community is more active (or at least more vocal), so their mailing list should be the main focal point. As I said in the other email, when we have more user traffic than dev traffic, then we can vote to split them out. Why are we even having this discussion? When did mailing lists become such a heavyweight operation that we have to discuss at length whether they should even exist? Just create the user/dev/commits/issues lists and be done with it. If nobody uses the user list, so be it. I think it's just more confusing to start moving traffic from one list to another. Keep things consistent. And another benefit of putting user traffic on the dev list is that it'll give the devs exposure to any probs that regular users are having with actually using the framework (ie so we can mature its documentation etc) The developers should be listening to the user list so that they can answer questions. They can't just hide in the dev list and not listen to the community. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
The formation of your community is a BIG DEAL. Not something to casually sweep under the rug. Partitioning the community between users and devs makes it very difficult to establish a large, viable, sustainable community. If projects arrive at the Incubator with an already-built user community, then sure. Create separate lists. But small communities should (IMO) stick to a single dev@ list until you can't handle the traffic any more. If you started elsewhere with two lists, but your list traffic is still small, then I would recommend combining them when arriving at the Incubator. It is obviously a call for each podling to make, so I'm simply recommending that all podlings consider the impact of dividing your community when you ask for separate dev/user lists. I believe it is rarely appropriate. Cheers, -g On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 04:42, Robert Matthews rmatth...@nakedobjects.org wrote: I'm with James on this one. Many good points have been made on this, but we do have bigger things to worry about. On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 08:06 -0400, James Carman wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:39 AM, dan haywood d...@haywood-associates.co.uk wrote: For the moment at least the dev community is more active (or at least more vocal), so their mailing list should be the main focal point. As I said in the other email, when we have more user traffic than dev traffic, then we can vote to split them out. Why are we even having this discussion? When did mailing lists become such a heavyweight operation that we have to discuss at length whether they should even exist? Just create the user/dev/commits/issues lists and be done with it. If nobody uses the user list, so be it. I think it's just more confusing to start moving traffic from one list to another. Keep things consistent. And another benefit of putting user traffic on the dev list is that it'll give the devs exposure to any probs that regular users are having with actually using the framework (ie so we can mature its documentation etc) The developers should be listening to the user list so that they can answer questions. They can't just hide in the dev list and not listen to the community. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: ...It is obviously a call for each podling to make, so I'm simply recommending that all podlings consider the impact of dividing your community when you ask for separate dev/user lists. I believe it is rarely appropriate I think this sums it up best, totally agree with Greg here - including making this a recommendation. -Bertrand - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
James Carman wrote on Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 15:33:53 -0400: If users are interested in the development goings-on, then they can subscribe to the dev list. A standard argument against this: Having it in the same list makes it easier to pull users in to become developers. Some folks, like us mentors, might not be interested in user issues, because we're really not necessarily capable of answering the questions. I don't want that junk in my inbox (or label/folder). Mentors should evaluate the healthiness of the community --- and that includes users support (whether by the developers or by the community) --- no? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
On 9/9/10 9:33 PM, James Carman wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com wrote: The formation of your community is a BIG DEAL. Not something to casually sweep under the rug. Partitioning the community between users and devs makes it very difficult to establish a large, viable, sustainable community. If projects arrive at the Incubator with an already-built user community, then sure. Create separate lists. But small communities should (IMO) stick to a single dev@ list until you can't handle the traffic any more. If you started elsewhere with two lists, but your list traffic is still small, then I would recommend combining them when arriving at the Incubator. It is obviously a call for each podling to make, so I'm simply recommending that all podlings consider the impact of dividing your community when you ask for separate dev/user lists. I believe it is rarely appropriate. And I'm all about consistency. Most (if not all, I haven't checked) ASF projects have separate user/dev lists. We, at Directory, created the users mailing list 2 years *after* exiting from incubation. Until then, we had mainly interaction with developers, not users. Eventually, some of those early adopters became committers. In fact, it's hard to get real users before the project is well established. In restrospect, it was a damn good idea : having an empty user list gives your potential users a bad feeling. Once you have enough real 'users' (quite unlikely if your project is just in incubation without an installed base), then creating a separate list where you actually have daily posts is good. Consistency is one thing, being pragmatic is probably a better idea. So +1 to Greg opinion. my 2 cts... -- Regards, Cordialement, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
btw, regarding consistency: some projects have a us...@a.o (plural) list, others have u...@a.o (singular). I most certainly take the wrong one whenever I write a mail to some u list ;) LieGrue, strub --- On Thu, 9/9/10, James Carman ja...@carmanconsulting.com wrote: From: James Carman ja...@carmanconsulting.com Subject: Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator) To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Thursday, September 9, 2010, 7:33 PM On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: The formation of your community is a BIG DEAL. Not something to casually sweep under the rug. Partitioning the community between users and devs makes it very difficult to establish a large, viable, sustainable community. If projects arrive at the Incubator with an already-built user community, then sure. Create separate lists. But small communities should (IMO) stick to a single dev@ list until you can't handle the traffic any more. If you started elsewhere with two lists, but your list traffic is still small, then I would recommend combining them when arriving at the Incubator. It is obviously a call for each podling to make, so I'm simply recommending that all podlings consider the impact of dividing your community when you ask for separate dev/user lists. I believe it is rarely appropriate. And I'm all about consistency. Most (if not all, I haven't checked) ASF projects have separate user/dev lists. That's just how we do things. It's really not that much trouble to have two different lists and just subscribe to both (if you're a developer). That way, development stuff (votes, board reports, etc.) doesn't bleed over onto the user lists. I've always subscribed to both lists for every project I'm on. If users are interested in the development goings-on, then they can subscribe to the dev list. Some folks, like us mentors, might not be interested in user issues, because we're really not necessarily capable of answering the questions. I don't want that junk in my inbox (or label/folder). - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
Knowing Roy he'd probably want to see them all renamed u...@. - Original Message From: Mark Struberg strub...@yahoo.de To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Thu, September 9, 2010 6:31:05 PM Subject: Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator) btw, regarding consistency: some projects have a us...@a.o (plural) list, others have u...@a.o (singular). I most certainly take the wrong one whenever I write a mail to some u list ;) LieGrue, strub --- On Thu, 9/9/10, James Carman ja...@carmanconsulting.com wrote: From: James Carman ja...@carmanconsulting.com Subject: Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator) To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Thursday, September 9, 2010, 7:33 PM On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: The formation of your community is a BIG DEAL. Not something to casually sweep under the rug. Partitioning the community between users and devs makes it very difficult to establish a large, viable, sustainable community. If projects arrive at the Incubator with an already-built user community, then sure. Create separate lists. But small communities should (IMO) stick to a single dev@ list until you can't handle the traffic any more. If you started elsewhere with two lists, but your list traffic is still small, then I would recommend combining them when arriving at the Incubator. It is obviously a call for each podling to make, so I'm simply recommending that all podlings consider the impact of dividing your community when you ask for separate dev/user lists. I believe it is rarely appropriate. And I'm all about consistency. Most (if not all, I haven't checked) ASF projects have separate user/dev lists. That's just how we do things. It's really not that much trouble to have two different lists and just subscribe to both (if you're a developer). That way, development stuff (votes, board reports, etc.) doesn't bleed over onto the user lists. I've always subscribed to both lists for every project I'm on. If users are interested in the development goings-on, then they can subscribe to the dev list. Some folks, like us mentors, might not be interested in user issues, because we're really not necessarily capable of answering the questions. I don't want that junk in my inbox (or label/folder). - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
Isis mentors: Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined mailing list for -dev and -user? Dan On 08/09/2010 08:10, Martijn Dashorst wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacksmatt...@matthewsacks.comwrote: ... *Mailing Lists* kitty-dev kitty-commits kitty-user Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the community across dev/user does not make sense. You want to keep the users and developers on the same mailing list until one starts to overwhelm the other. By partitioning the lists too early, you risk never reaching critical mass on *either* mailing list. This is actually great advice, and I wish we'd done this with a couple of podlings that are currently too small to graduate. In retrospect empire-db and etch really could have done without the user- list IMO. Martijn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com wrote: Isis mentors: Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined mailing list for -dev and -user? ... Like Martijn and Greg I think that's a great idea. We ran Sling with just a dev list for 18 months IIRC and it's been good. Same with Clerezza, also just a dev list, avoids fragmentation. Folks are sometimes shy about asking user questions on dev lists, I'd make it clear on the project website that that's welcome. -Bertrand - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
+1 I barely see the users list used in OWB and even in MyFaces ;) I'd say an isis-...@incubator.a.o + isis-comm...@i.a.o list would do fine for now. LieGrue, strub --- On Wed, 9/8/10, Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com Subject: Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator) To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 7:16 AM Isis mentors: Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined mailing list for -dev and -user? Dan On 08/09/2010 08:10, Martijn Dashorst wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacksmatt...@matthewsacks.comwrote: ... *Mailing Lists* kitty-dev kitty-commits kitty-user Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the community across dev/user does not make sense. You want to keep the users and developers on the same mailing list until one starts to overwhelm the other. By partitioning the lists too early, you risk never reaching critical mass on *either* mailing list. This is actually great advice, and I wish we'd done this with a couple of podlings that are currently too small to graduate. In retrospect empire-db and etch really could have done without the user- list IMO. Martijn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
+1 especially since incubation is about establishing a developers community -M On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Mark Struberg strub...@yahoo.de wrote: +1 I barely see the users list used in OWB and even in MyFaces ;) I'd say an isis-...@incubator.a.o + isis-comm...@i.a.o list would do fine for now. LieGrue, strub --- On Wed, 9/8/10, Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com Subject: Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator) To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 7:16 AM Isis mentors: Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined mailing list for -dev and -user? Dan On 08/09/2010 08:10, Martijn Dashorst wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacksmatt...@matthewsacks.comwrote: ... *Mailing Lists* kitty-dev kitty-commits kitty-user Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the community across dev/user does not make sense. You want to keep the users and developers on the same mailing list until one starts to overwhelm the other. By partitioning the lists too early, you risk never reaching critical mass on *either* mailing list. This is actually great advice, and I wish we'd done this with a couple of podlings that are currently too small to graduate. In retrospect empire-db and etch really could have done without the user- list IMO. Martijn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
RE: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
The private, dev and commits list is all that has been asked for. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2971 so your fine. gav... -Original Message- From: mwessend...@gmail.com [mailto:mwessend...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Matthias Wessendorf Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2010 7:29 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: d...@haywood-associates.co.uk Subject: Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator) +1 especially since incubation is about establishing a developers community -M On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Mark Struberg strub...@yahoo.de wrote: +1 I barely see the users list used in OWB and even in MyFaces ;) I'd say an isis-...@incubator.a.o + isis-comm...@i.a.o list would do fine for now. LieGrue, strub --- On Wed, 9/8/10, Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com Subject: Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator) To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 7:16 AM Isis mentors: Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined mailing list for -dev and -user? Dan On 08/09/2010 08:10, Martijn Dashorst wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacksmatt...@matthewsacks.comwrote: ... *Mailing Lists* kitty-dev kitty-commits kitty-user Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the community across dev/user does not make sense. You want to keep the users and developers on the same mailing list until one starts to overwhelm the other. By partitioning the lists too early, you risk never reaching critical mass on *either* mailing list. This is actually great advice, and I wish we'd done this with a couple of podlings that are currently too small to graduate. In retrospect empire-db and etch really could have done without the user- list IMO. Martijn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
My bad for possibly confusing things, then. Benson got it right when he raised that ticket in the first place. Dan On 8 September 2010 10:33, Gav... ga...@16degrees.com.au wrote: The private, dev and commits list is all that has been asked for. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2971 so your fine. gav... -Original Message- From: mwessend...@gmail.com [mailto:mwessend...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Matthias Wessendorf Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2010 7:29 PM To: general@incubator.apache.org Cc: d...@haywood-associates.co.uk Subject: Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator) +1 especially since incubation is about establishing a developers community -M On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Mark Struberg strub...@yahoo.de wrote: +1 I barely see the users list used in OWB and even in MyFaces ;) I'd say an isis-...@incubator.a.o + isis-comm...@i.a.o list would do fine for now. LieGrue, strub --- On Wed, 9/8/10, Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com Subject: Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator) To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 7:16 AM Isis mentors: Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined mailing list for -dev and -user? Dan On 08/09/2010 08:10, Martijn Dashorst wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacksmatt...@matthewsacks.comwrote: ... *Mailing Lists* kitty-dev kitty-commits kitty-user Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the community across dev/user does not make sense. You want to keep the users and developers on the same mailing list until one starts to overwhelm the other. By partitioning the lists too early, you risk never reaching critical mass on *either* mailing list. This is actually great advice, and I wish we'd done this with a couple of podlings that are currently too small to graduate. In retrospect empire-db and etch really could have done without the user- list IMO. Martijn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
Well, we could neglect to tell anyone about the user list until we need it. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com wrote: Isis mentors: Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined mailing list for -dev and -user? Dan On 08/09/2010 08:10, Martijn Dashorst wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacksmatt...@matthewsacks.com wrote: ... *Mailing Lists* kitty-dev kitty-commits kitty-user Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the community across dev/user does not make sense. You want to keep the users and developers on the same mailing list until one starts to overwhelm the other. By partitioning the lists too early, you risk never reaching critical mass on *either* mailing list. This is actually great advice, and I wish we'd done this with a couple of podlings that are currently too small to graduate. In retrospect empire-db and etch really could have done without the user- list IMO. Martijn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
Isn't Isis a different bird though? It has been around for a long time and is likely to actually have existing users On Sep 8, 2010 7:04 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Well, we could neglect to tell anyone about the user list until we need it. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com wrote: Isis mentors: Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined mailing list for -dev and -user? Dan On 08/09/2010 08:10, Martijn Dashorst wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacksmatt...@matthewsacks.com wrote: ... *Mailing Lists* kitty-dev kitty-commits kitty-user Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the community across dev/user does not make sense. You want to keep the users and developers on the same mailing list until one starts to overwhelm the other. By partitioning the lists too early, you risk never reaching critical mass on *either* mailing list. This is actually great advice, and I wish we'd done this with a couple of podlings that are currently too small to graduate. In retrospect empire-db and etch really could have done without the user- list IMO. Martijn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
One point against this is that we have had a long-standing user list, and it is the developer list that is new and growing. People are use to the user list already. If we are going to combine the two then I suggest we have a -user list now and let the developers grow out of that. Rob On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 08:16 +0100, Dan Haywood wrote: Isis mentors: Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined mailing list for -dev and -user? Dan On 08/09/2010 08:10, Martijn Dashorst wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacksmatt...@matthewsacks.comwrote: ... *Mailing Lists* kitty-dev kitty-commits kitty-user Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the community across dev/user does not make sense. You want to keep the users and developers on the same mailing list until one starts to overwhelm the other. By partitioning the lists too early, you risk never reaching critical mass on *either* mailing list. This is actually great advice, and I wish we'd done this with a couple of podlings that are currently too small to graduate. In retrospect empire-db and etch really could have done without the user- list IMO. Martijn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
On 8 September 2010 12:16, James Carman ja...@carmanconsulting.com wrote: Isn't Isis a different bird though? It has been around for a long time and is likely to actually have existing users It has some, but not enough to be sustainable. Hence entry into the incubator to build both its user and developer communities. I think that for the foreseeable any new users we attract are likely to be early adopters, with a better than average chance of getting interested in contributing. One of the internal milestones for us ought to be when we get to the point that we vote it would be beneficial to split off a -user from -dev... that would be an indicator that we have enough just users, and are moving into the early majority stage. There's another thing here too.. activity on the mailing list (even if its just the devs exchanging ideas) will give would-be users a sense that interesting things are happening. In contrast, a very quiet users list (which I think it would be) would be a turn-off. So my vote is just a dev mailnig list for now. On Sep 8, 2010 7:04 AM, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Well, we could neglect to tell anyone about the user list until we need it. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Dan Haywood dkhayw...@gmail.com wrote: Isis mentors: Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined mailing list for -dev and -user? Dan On 08/09/2010 08:10, Martijn Dashorst wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacksmatt...@matthewsacks.com wrote: ... *Mailing Lists* kitty-dev kitty-commits kitty-user Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the community across dev/user does not make sense. You want to keep the users and developers on the same mailing list until one starts to overwhelm the other. By partitioning the lists too early, you risk never reaching critical mass on *either* mailing list. This is actually great advice, and I wish we'd done this with a couple of podlings that are currently too small to graduate. In retrospect empire-db and etch really could have done without the user- list IMO. Martijn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
On 8 September 2010 12:19, Robert Matthews rmatth...@nakedobjects.orgwrote: One point against this is that we have had a long-standing user list, ... ... People are used to the user list already. We do, but it's going to change anyway when we make the apache mailing list available. If we are going to combine the two then I suggest we have a -user list now and let the developers grow out of that. I disagree; I think we should follow the precedents on other projects (Sling, OWB, MyFaces). For the moment at least the dev community is more active (or at least more vocal), so their mailing list should be the main focal point. As I said in the other email, when we have more user traffic than dev traffic, then we can vote to split them out. And another benefit of putting user traffic on the dev list is that it'll give the devs exposure to any probs that regular users are having with actually using the framework (ie so we can mature its documentation etc) Dan Rob On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 08:16 +0100, Dan Haywood wrote: Isis mentors: Given we're in the same situation and are still being bootstrapped, should we follow this advice, ie start off with a combined mailing list for -dev and -user? Dan On 08/09/2010 08:10, Martijn Dashorst wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacksmatt...@matthewsacks.com wrote: ... *Mailing Lists* kitty-dev kitty-commits kitty-user Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the community across dev/user does not make sense. You want to keep the users and developers on the same mailing list until one starts to overwhelm the other. By partitioning the lists too early, you risk never reaching critical mass on *either* mailing list. This is actually great advice, and I wish we'd done this with a couple of podlings that are currently too small to graduate. In retrospect empire-db and etch really could have done without the user- list IMO. Martijn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:39 AM, dan haywood d...@haywood-associates.co.uk wrote: For the moment at least the dev community is more active (or at least more vocal), so their mailing list should be the main focal point. As I said in the other email, when we have more user traffic than dev traffic, then we can vote to split them out. Why are we even having this discussion? When did mailing lists become such a heavyweight operation that we have to discuss at length whether they should even exist? Just create the user/dev/commits/issues lists and be done with it. If nobody uses the user list, so be it. I think it's just more confusing to start moving traffic from one list to another. Keep things consistent. And another benefit of putting user traffic on the dev list is that it'll give the devs exposure to any probs that regular users are having with actually using the framework (ie so we can mature its documentation etc) The developers should be listening to the user list so that they can answer questions. They can't just hide in the dev list and not listen to the community. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)
On 8 September 2010 12:39, dan haywood d...@haywood-associates.co.uk wrote: snip/ And another benefit of putting user traffic on the dev list is that it'll give the devs exposure to any probs that regular users are having with actually using the framework (ie so we can mature its documentation etc) In ASF projects I would expect that developers are subscribed to both the dev and user lists anyway. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
