[Swift-devel] maling lists

[Ioan Raicu]

Incubator guidelines are probably easier to satisfy than once you are 
ready to escalate, which should be most incubator's end goal.

Mihael Hategan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:39 -0500, Ioan Raicu wrote:
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>> 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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>> Ioan Raicu
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>> Distributed Systems Laboratory
>> Computer Science Department
>> University of Chicago
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>> Chicago, IL 60637
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>> Email: iraicu at cs.uchicago.edu
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Ioan Raicu
Ph.D. Candidate
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Distributed Systems Laboratory
Computer Science Department
University of Chicago
1100 E. 58th Street, Ryerson Hall
Chicago, IL 60637
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Email: iraicu at cs.uchicago.edu
Web:   http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~iraicu
http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Incubator/Falkon
http://dsl-wiki.cs.uchicago.edu/index.php/Main_Page
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