RE: [eclipse-dev] Is there any interest in a committers forum?

["Ed Burnette" <Ed.Burnette@xxxxxxx>]

My thinking was that people were almost afraid to post to the main eclipse.org committer forum (this list) because it goes out to so many (1000+) people. My worry is that committers can become siloed into their own project-dev forums or user forums and lose opportunities to collaborate and discover common goals and interests.

But in any case, the previous proposal is voted down.

New proposal: Same as before except gate it (2-way) to the eclipse-dev moderated mailing list (this list).

The value add would be that you could read and post in a threaded web-based view that supports attachments, watches, profiles, and RSS/Atom. See http://www.eclipsezone.com/java/forums/f18122.html for an example of what it would look like. That particular forum is gated to the user newsgroup eclipse.platform. (btw, http://www.eclipsezone.com/java/forums/c5605.html shows all the newsgroups currently gated (with Foundation approval); we're adding more on demand so send me an email if you want to use one that's not there).


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Billy Biggs
>
>   -1, as it wouldn't help encourage anyone to contribute, imho. it just
> further divides the already artificial committer vs non-committer
> distinction.


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> From: Jeff McAffer
>
> What is the advantage of this over the existing lists that are NOT going to
> be paired with this new forum?  The concern here is fragmentation.  If
> eclipse.org is missing committer facilities, they should be added there.
>
>So I am a -1 pending obvious value add.
>
>Jeff
>