Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-14 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
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

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-10 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
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

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-09 Thread Robert Matthews
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

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-09 Thread Greg Stein
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,

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-09 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
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

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-09 Thread Daniel Shahaf
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

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-09 Thread Emmanuel Lecharny
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

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-09 Thread Mark Struberg
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

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-09 Thread Joe Schaefer
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

No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 20:29, Matthew Sacks matt...@matthewsacks.comwrote: ... *Mailing Lists* kitty-dev kitty-commits kitty-user Is there a large user community already? If not, then splitting the community across

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Dan Haywood
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:

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
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

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Mark Struberg
+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-

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Matthias Wessendorf
+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

RE: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Gav...
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

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread dan haywood
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

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Benson Margulies
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

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread James Carman
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

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread Robert Matthews
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,

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread dan haywood
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

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread dan haywood
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.

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread James Carman
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

Re: No dev-, user- lists for small podlings (was: Re: [PROPOSAL] Kitty to Enter the Incubator)

2010-09-08 Thread sebb
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