Some comments in line
On 24/04/14 23:26, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
Hello there,
during the meeting today [1] there was some discussion to set up a new,
low-traffic, high-importance list for the Xubuntu team. Only team
members could post to the list, but everybody could subscribe to read
the list.
Topics and tasks for the list would include:
* Voting on project-related questions (currently done during the meetings)
This should only be members of -team anyway (relates to a later point)
* Announcing meeting minutes and monthly team reports
Shouldn't those be for the Xubuntu Community
* Calls for testing, or request for other input
This will not work with regard to -qa - we use more than just the dev
list to call for testing. Also get more response to calls from testing
from those people than anyone in -team.
We'd have to get people to subscribe to a new list - that likely
wouldn't be of much use - just to get testing calls.
* Other important project announcements
These should be announced to the Xubuntu Community,
Some of the pros of setting up this new list include:
* The team is currently heavily organized in IRC, moving more of the
important communication to a low-traffic mailing list could make
contributing less exclusive
* A low traffic list would be easier to read for the team members as
well as other people digging up decicions and important milestones later
These points are the ones that made me think of this in the first place.
Communication between us in the last cycle left something to be desired
- my original thoughts re this new list relate to that only, side
benefits being inclusiveness re meetings - during the last cycle we were
lucky if we got a third of the team there at meetings.
Though opening up a new list to more than the things that -team need to
discuss will soon negate that 'pro'
There are some potential caveats to the new list:
* Subject/topic partly overlaps with the current developer list
Not if we work it properly it won't.
* Not allowing people who aren't team members could make the list seem
exclusive (though commenting on issues would still be possible on the
development list)
Some things are exclusive
Alternative options include:
* Start using a speficic "tag" for the aforementioned communication
(and possibly automoderate non-team members' posts with that tag)
Not at all sure how a tag will help.
All that means is that a mail that people are ignoring has a tag - and
it's still hidden in the list and the mists of time.
* Increase the strictness of the moderation in the developer list to
make it lower traffic and more relevant (con: probably affects list
atmosphere and makes the thresold to post too(?) high)
I'm not sure that this will help to increase communication - which /is/
what my proposal was about.
I hope we can get all the issues raised before the next meeting, and
that everybody would have some kind of opinion before the next meeting
in two weeks. Start discussing!
Cheers,
Pasi
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings/Archive/Minutes/2014-04-24
This does all I suppose depend to some extent on what we do with regard
to Trello, if we go that way then a mailing list will likely be unnecessary.
It's certainly a lot easier to work with that - and see the current
status of something that trawling a mailing list.
Elfy.
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