Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-10 Thread Noah Slater
Okay, the notice period has passed, and despite this proposal generating some discussion, there were no objections. I will therefor proceed. I will set up reminders to report to the community in 6 months and 12 months, as agreed. On 5 February 2014 12:59, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote:

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-10 Thread Benjamin Young
On 2/10/14, 8:39 AM, Noah Slater wrote: Okay, the notice period has passed, and despite this proposal generating some discussion, there were no objections. I will therefor proceed. Glad marketing@ is going to happen. We'll at least have a place to discuss things without cluttering dev@/user@

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-05 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: I agree. If erlang@ becomes the place where newbie questions about Erlang go ignored, we should can the list. It's already some months since its creation without much activity. You requested examples:

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-05 Thread Andy Wenk
On 5 February 2014 11:08, Benoit Chesneau bchesn...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: I agree. If erlang@ becomes the place where newbie questions about Erlang go ignored, we should can the list. It's already some months since

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-05 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Andy Wenk a...@nms.de wrote: On 5 February 2014 11:08, Benoit Chesneau bchesn...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: I agree. If erlang@ becomes the place where newbie questions about Erlang go

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-05 Thread Noah Slater
On 5 February 2014 11:08, Benoit Chesneau bchesn...@gmail.com wrote: I see you already decided to go on this ml with some others people, so there is no reason to continue any discussion on that topic anyway Not sure if you just worded this poorly, or whether you misunderstand how decision

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Andy Wenk
Hi Noah and Benoit, I want to drop a personal note here. I do agree with both your targets and I am sure that both of you have very much more experience in this project regarding communication and organization. But what I feel right here is, that Benoit feels kind of unheard and Noah doesn't want

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Andy Wenk a...@nms.de wrote: Hi Noah and Benoit, I want to drop a personal note here. I do agree with both your targets and I am sure that both of you have very much more experience in this project regarding communication and organization. But what I feel

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Garren Smith gar...@apache.org wrote: Benoit, Andy and Noah Benoit has been the only one to raise an objection to this, so can we not assume that everyone else is ok with this? If so can we move on. no i am not: Nick North nort...@gmail.com 11:34 AM (22

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Noah Slater
Let's talk about that hostility. This email thread is an example of that hostility. And what appears to be a knee-jerk over-reaction on my part is my learnt reaction to this hostility. To make it clear: CouchDB is paralysed. The PMC is paralysed. And it has been for a long time. It seems we are

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Robert Samuel Newson
+1 to all that, Noah. I can only imagine what this looks like to casual readers. Few things require unanimity and this is not one of them. The reason I’ve stayed quiet on the proposal is that while I don’t feel strongly for it, I don’t feel strongly against it. It’s not my time or effort

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Also no formal ask about this mailing-list has been done in its own thread. Which I request. This is it. I've already done that. We're on that thread. No you sent a notice about its creation. Which is a way different.

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Noah Slater
We came to an agreement on what [NOTICE] means in this thread: http://markmail.org/message/o27dls6t3pqtxjew The first paragraph in this thread was: This is a notice that I am going to assume lazy consensus on the proposal to create a marketing@ list. If you have a formal objection to raise,

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Robert Samuel Newson rnew...@apache.orgwrote: +1 to all that, Noah. I can only imagine what this looks like to casual readers. Few things require unanimity and this is not one of them. The reason I've stayed quiet on the proposal is that while I don't feel

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Noah Slater
Benoit, it's not that you're the bad guy for disagreeing. The problem is when you filibuster people until they run out of energy. This has been a problem for a long time now. As we continue to grow CouchDB we need to get out of this mindset that unanimity is required to proceed on any action. You

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Benoit, it's not that you're the bad guy for disagreeing. The problem is when you filibuster people until they run out of energy. This has been a problem for a long time now. As we continue to grow CouchDB we need to get

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Nick North
PS I don't want to be seen as filibustering here so, if people consider this to be a waste of time, I'm +1 on creating the list if the people who want to do the work want it. (Even though it's not my own inclination.) Nick On 4 Feb 2014, at 17:30, Nick North nort...@gmail.com wrote: I'm

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Robert Samuel Newson rnew...@apache.orgwrote: I don't see why the idea needs that much momentum behind it to get a pass / why there's so much inertia to do nothing new. Try it, see what happens, mailing lists can always be deleted. B. I am not sure we

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Nick North nort...@gmail.com wrote: I'm probably going to regret jumping into this, especially as I'm modifying my earlier view a bit, but how about getting some objectivity by basing a decision on whether to go ahead on the record of the other spin-off lists

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Noah Slater
Nick, I don't think you are filibustering. You raise a good point that has not come up yet. Namely: what do we consider to be the success criteria of mailing lists? And perhaps more importantly: what are the failure criteria? Here's my attempt at answering those questions. Success criteria: -

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Nick, I don't think you are filibustering. You raise a good point that has not come up yet. actually I already raised it. And took the Erlang ml as an example of a very little traffic list. The advocacy list on postgresql,

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Andy Wenk
On 4 February 2014 11:45, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Success criteria: - The mailing lists are occasionally used, and when questions are posted there, replies are received. - People who might not otherwise have been active start to become active. Failure criteria: - Mails

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Noah Slater
I agree. If erlang@ becomes the place where newbie questions about Erlang go ignored, we should can the list. You requested examples: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-marketing/ http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cloudstack-marketing/ Andy, how about two review dates?

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Andy Wenk
On 4 February 2014 12:00, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: I agree. If erlang@ becomes the place where newbie questions about Erlang go ignored, we should can the list. You requested examples: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-marketing/

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-04 Thread Garren Smith
+1 On 04 Feb 2014, at 1:04 PM, Andy Wenk a...@nms.de wrote: On 4 February 2014 12:00, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: I agree. If erlang@ becomes the place where newbie questions about Erlang go ignored, we should can the list. You requested examples:

[NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-03 Thread Noah Slater
Benoit, This is a notice that I am going to assume lazy consensus on the proposal to create a marketing@ list. If you have a formal objection to raise, please do so now, and I will move this to a vote. We have the following lists: erlang@ - Created specifically to create safe space for people

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-03 Thread Benoit Chesneau
Noah, I wonder why I took the time to elaborate on that topic to see all my concerns and *objections* properly ignored just because you don't care about what does the others (which had a known and accepted success in their strategy) or because you just disagree without giving much reason. I

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-03 Thread Benoit Chesneau
I forgot to answer to one of your other concern, but I am totally agree with the fact that contributors don't have to be a developer or whatever. Which doesn't mean they should have a dedicated ml. Not developing and following devs are 2 different things. On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Benoit

Re: [NOTICE] Create marketing@ lis (Was: Re: Marketing suggestion)

2014-02-03 Thread Noah Slater
Benoit, Sorry if I gave you that impression. I read your mail in full, and take on board all of your points. I just don't want to drag this out into a needlessly long discussion that tires people out. We do a lot of *talking* in this project. It would be nice if we could make decisions quicker