Re: Private mail lists [was: Inappropriate use of announce@]

2003-10-25 Thread Berin Lautenbach
Steven Noels wrote: Santiago Gala wrote: When I said: Just tell them. I think they are all PMC Chairs are subscribed to board, so it should be easy to tell them there to Sideway comment from my little peanut gallery: this is (only) the second time I overheard that PMC chairs can subscribe to

Cleverer than yesterday (Re: Inappropriate use of announce@)

2003-10-24 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:25:09 +0200 Santiago Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (both in the harsh criticism trend, by one or the other, every one of us is in the role at times, and in the sense that we learn that we can survive to it and fight against it and be actually supported by other

Re: Private mail lists [was: Inappropriate use of announce@]

2003-10-24 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Santiago Gala wrote: ... Another troublesome and interesting case is incubation processes. There are messages going back and forth between the incubator and the relevant pmc to take the project, and quite often the final acceptance decision is not documented anywhere, or barely so. And the

Re: Private mail lists [was: Inappropriate use of announce@]

2003-10-23 Thread Steven Noels
Santiago Gala wrote: When I said: Just tell them. I think they are all PMC Chairs are subscribed to board, so it should be easy to tell them there to Sideway comment from my little peanut gallery: this is (only) the second time I overheard that PMC chairs can subscribe to board@ - in three

Re: Private mail lists [was: Inappropriate use of announce@]

2003-10-23 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Steven Noels wrote: Santiago Gala wrote: Just tell them. I think they are all PMC Chairs are subscribed to board, so it should be easy to tell them there to Sideway comment from my little peanut gallery: this is (only) the second time I overheard that PMC chairs can subscribe to board@

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-22 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
I am not sure whether this proverb (?) can express my feelings and one of my principles, however, I am willing to put it here: Condemn the offense but not the offender. ( Tsumi wo nikun de, hito wo nikuma zu ) -- This principle might be really adaptable to Open Source Software Communities, I

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:02:35 -0400 (Subject: Re: Inappropriate use of announce@) Rodent of Unusual Size [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tetsuya has a lot of energy, and i think we are seeing the common decay into inertia and conservatism common to groups as they grow and age. imho, we should work

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:02:35 -0400 (Subject: Re: Inappropriate use of announce@) Rodent of Unusual Size [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tetsuya has a lot of energy, and i think we are seeing the common decay into inertia and conservatism common to groups as they grow and age

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 07:03 Europe/Rome, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:02:35 -0400 (Subject: Re: Inappropriate use of announce@) Rodent of Unusual Size [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tetsuya has a lot of energy, and i think we are seeing the common

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
I don't want to drag this along forever, but I feel I need to be precise because I don't want email communication to make it drier than it is. On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 09:07 Europe/Rome, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:52:16 +0200 Stefano Mazzocchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Henning Schmiedehausen
I won't. Life is not fair. I have several customers there (Hofheim), so I know about this. Solution: Move. E.g. my last house move and the location of my office were purely based on the number of carriers able to offer me bandwith there. I live in this century, I want to interact with its

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread André Malo
I know, I shouldn't post this... * Henning Schmiedehausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Life is not fair. [..] If you voluntarily chose to stay in a location where you can't get what ^^^ How did you get that impression? you need to keep up, you can't expect others to scale down

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Phil Steitz
Craig R. McClanahan wrote: snip/ Your comment about bureacracy is interesting. For the first time in my life, I've spent the last three+ years working for a big company (Sun), after working for organizations with 500 employees previously in my career. Apache's bureaucracy doesn't hold a

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Phil Steitz wrote: Craig R. McClanahan wrote: snip/ ... I don't think that effective decision-making in a large organization *requires* bureacracy. You're right. It requires responsibility. It's possible that an entity is responsible of something without having bureacracy in place. In Apache

RE: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-21 Thread Sander Striker
From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:59 AM I don't think David and Sander did such a bad thing, they expressed their opinion, but I disliked the way they did and I wanted to apologize for the feeling you got out of this. You felt sad but

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
and sorry for posting FAT mails twice to announce@, before. -- Tetsuya. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:09:46 +0100 (Subject: Inappropriate use of announce@) David Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel the posting of the newsletter to the announce list is not appropriate. In fact after

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
you for reading. -- Tetsuya. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:08:19 -0400 (Subject: RE: Inappropriate use of announce@) Noel J. Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tetsuya, All that David was asking is that you post a SHORT announcement, like the sample I posted, rather than the ENTIRE

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Abele
On 20/10/2003, at 01:40, Noel J. Bergman wrote: The original intention of the newsletter was Newsletter will be one of the *glue* of the communities in the ASF umbrella ... It seems that the newsletter itself is going to the contrary. The newsletter is doing that job. All that was asked is that

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Berin Lautenbach
From: Tetsuya Kitahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Inappropriate use of announce@ Date: 20/10/2003 9:20:39 To: community@apache.org Nope. I have to resign. The difference of the e-mail culture. We, Japanese, do not complain about the volume of the mails (especially when they are useful

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Hi Tetsuya! Many people is very interested and apreciate your effort in creating a kind of glue for all the projects under the Apache umbrella. Here include me too, for sure! Tetsuya Kitahata dijo: Nope. I have to resign. The difference of the e-mail culture. Hmm I can't believe that. :(

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Berin Lautenbach
From: Erik Abele [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announce@ is for announcements, community@ for community musings, and *perhaps* newsletter@ is for the newsletter. That's it, simple, eh? +1. (Can still put a short note in announce@) Cheers, Berin This message was sent through MyMail

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Joshua Slive
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: Nope. I have to resign. Well, thanks for your contribution Tetsuya. I think it is a worthwhile project, and I hope you reconsider or someone picks it up. I do believe that there have been some people getting a little too picky about policies. In

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Glen Stampoultzis
At 12:41 PM 20/10/2003, you wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: Nope. I have to resign. Well, thanks for your contribution Tetsuya. I think it is a worthwhile project, and I hope you reconsider or someone picks it up. I do believe that there have been some people getting a

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Joshua Slive wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: Nope. I have to resign. Well, thanks for your contribution Tetsuya. I think it is a worthwhile project, and I hope you reconsider or someone picks it up. I do believe that there have been some people getting a little too

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread John Keyes
Tetsuya, Noel J. Bergman wrote: You did a great job, as usual, on the newsletter, and you should continue to do so, IMO. +1, your contribution is very much appreciated. -John K - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: I very much enjoyed the hard work that Tetsuya put into the newsletter and I'm very sad to see him step down because of such puny reasons as to which mailing list this newsletter should be sent. Me too on both points. Steve. -- Stephen J. McConnell mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:37:23 +0200 (Subject: RE: Inappropriate use of announce@) Sander Striker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also consider the people that are subscribed to the announce list, all 8304 of them. 8304 Great! I have heard from Noel that the number of subscribers to announce

Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Abele
As the discussion now shows *nobody* is in favour of Tetsuyas resignation and *everybody* appreciate[sd] his efforts but it also seems that there exist some basic misunderstandings, at least I've lost the point somewhere last night... On 20/10/2003, at 10:44, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: And

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Sander Striker wrote: Also consider the people that are subscribed to the announce list, all 8304 of them. I'm sure they didn't sign up to an announcement list to receive 43k emails. If they had wanted that, they would have subscribed to a newsletter... ;). after any announcement to any

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Joshua Slive
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: long ago, when the original httpd announce@apache.org got repurposed into a general announcement list, did we say anything about what subscribers could expect? do we say anything about it now on the page where people learn about the lists?

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Rob Oxspring
I've been trying to stay out of all this but the logic here just made me bite and chime in. - Original Message - From: Erik Abele [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community@apache.org Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 12:38 PM Subject: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@ [snip

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
I recently read that the smaller an issue is, the bigger a discussion it gets, as everyone has something to say. This issue must be pretty trivial then. In any case, who decides? What is the PMC or something overlooking these things, that can give a reasonable decision and stop all this

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:13:35 +0200 (Subject: Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@) Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently read that the smaller an issue is, the bigger a discussion it gets, as everyone has something to say. This issue must be pretty

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Abele
On 20/10/2003, at 04:43, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: Well, the threads on this and other similar topics showed that the majority of our community has a completely different point of view when it comes to information reception. Compared to whom? To you, me or Tetsuyo? EVERYBODY HAS HIS/HER OWN

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Abele
On 20/10/2003, at 04:44, Rob Oxspring wrote: we know that everybody has his/her own preferences Again I would have thought that most of us are grown up enough to realise that. Therefore I wrote '... we [the ASF community] know ...' :) so why don't we just go with a pull-model instead of pushing

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread André Malo
* Henning Schmiedehausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I liked the idea of a general announce list where all this stuff is sent and let my mail client sort it out. This is the 21st century. If you have bandwidth, disk space or download time concerns, you're either not using the right technology or

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: Any by trying to build an ideal world for yourself, you basically killed whatever enthusiasm or dedication Tetsuya showed. Because you offered no support or at least positive feedback but only we don't like this format, this way of posting, this content, change