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Re: [eclipse.org-committers] What is appropriate use of this list
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Masterson, Michael P wrote:
I agree that this list should remain open to all committers. My general
view on distribution lists is that they should for the most part be one
way communicaions. There are exceptions, for instance if there are some
generic questions/answers that should be seen by the entire committer
community. Or things like this where the community at large could be
affected by its outcome.
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but all projects have the ability
to use either CVS or SVN at Eclipse as we maintain both. Discussion
about the advantages or disadvantages of either *at Eclipse* are pretty
important in my opinion, and they do affect the entire community
substantively. With the exception of the very beginning of the
discussion, I personally find it hard to find fault with any of the
comments made, and particularly not at the point where you felt it was
appropriate to cut off discussion. At that very point Walter was
informing a committer who clearly did not know (and is definitely not
the only one, I can tell you) about the IP cleanliness policy. I'm not
sure what could have been more germane, even given your definition above.
But when a discussion starts to de-evolve into a "I think this", "Well I
think that" topic these emails start to lose credibility and importance
to me. I think it would be nice if such a thing starts to happen that
the originator or someone involved in the discussion create a thread in
a message board and provide a link so that only interested parties can
be involved further. In fact, an originator's responsibility should be
to consider whether the topic might warrant wide spread feedback and
provide an offline forum in their post.
When I'm on a list where a particular discussion, not the whole list,
but a particular thread loses interest to me, I simply filter it. It
takes practically no time or effort to do it.
I really think that the majority of the emails I get through this list
ARE important and warrant my attention. I am interested in what other
projects are doing and in designer news/tips regarding eclipse. I just
hope people treat such a large distro with the respect it deserves.
Well there will certainly be cases where people post things that aren't
quite right for the target of the list. But as we grow as a community
and the appropriateness of certain discussions is made clear I expect
that concern will diminish. And we can always gently remind people of
how we've decided to use this list, once we've done that.
Karl
