[Out of necessity, this is heavily cross-posted. Suggestion is to send any replies to the gene...@jakarta list only to keep any discussion in one place.]
We currently have 8 active development lists at Jakarta, each devoted to a subproject. I've been subscribed to all for a while and based on my observations and the overall benefits of doing so, I think its time to consolidate them into a single development list at Jakarta. Motivations (not in any order): * Flattens and simplifies oversight - Not much else to be said on that. * Communication - Subprojects can often have various touch points. So, Rony's surprise today at the BSF taglib being retired is one example. Lets have all dev discussions on one list. * Cross-pollination - Most subprojects are at the point where it certainly wouldn't hurt to have the active folks from all of Jakarta around for dev discussions, votes etc. * Manageable overhead - More on this later, but we have a number of usual suspects showing up on many of the dev lists, they'd barely notice a difference. Others can manage, IMO/hopefully. Operationally: * The combined list traffic will obviously be more than any one of the separate lists. However, development tends to be in spurts on these lists and the probabilistic chances of more than a couple of subproject spurts happening at the same time seems quite low. Overall, combined traffic is not at all overpowering IMO. * The proposal will include closing current dev lists and adding all subscribers to the one new dev list. We'll post a heads up on these lists before that. Throw in site-cvs@ as well for good measure. * We could repurpose general@ as the one dev list, but OTOH, seems worthwhile to maintain the dev / general separation. * No changes proposed to the user lists. Thoughts? Lets say a little over a week (10 days, which should give us two weekends) for initial feedback and opinions please. -Rahul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: slide-dev-unsubscr...@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: slide-dev-h...@jakarta.apache.org
