[Swift-devel] maling lists

[Mihael Hategan]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:39 -0500, Ioan Raicu wrote:
> This will be enough for being allowed back as an incubator, but it
> will never suffice for escalating the project to being a full fledged
> Globus component.  They look at the mailing lists activity at review
> time, and will judge the community size based on the number of people
> that post questions and answers.  So, your solution to ignore as much
> as possible the globus mailing list is only a short term solution.

It would seem silly to allow projects to have primary lists other than
the ones at @globus.org, yet require that all meaningful activity
happens on the ones @globus.org. "Primary" implies "where all meaningful
stuff happens".

> 
> Ioan 
> 
> Mihael Hategan wrote: 
> > On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 17:30 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> >   
> > > > - subscribe all committers to the other @globus mailing lists. We'll
> > > > encourage users to use the @ci mailing lists, and discussions initiated
> > > > on @globus should be manually moved to @ci.
> > > >       
> > > I think this is fairly ridiculous.
> > >     
> > 
> > That I can't deny.
> > 
> >   
> > > We should not have multiple mailing lists for the same purpose. If we have 
> > > globus lists, the CI lists should be shut down and the community and 
> > > archives there abandoned or compelled to move.
> > >     
> > 
> > We wouldn't really use the @globus.org mailing lists. We fulfill our
> > requirement (given that we have no choice), and we also make it so that
> > we don't really fulfill the requirement. In other words we have the
> > lists, we do what we're asked, but we tell everybody to use the other
> > ones. And for the few cases when people ask questions on the @globus.org
> > lists, we move the discussion.
> > 
> >   
> > 
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