| Re: [stellation-res] Newsgroup |
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 13:21, Dave Shields wrote: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 03:53:35PM +0000, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote: > > > > We now have our own newsgroup: eclipse.technology.stellation. > > > > If you folks agree, I'd like to migrate the design-oriented discussions > > onto the newsgroup, and keep the mailing list for more day-to-day work > > issues, bug fixing matters, etc. > > > > -Mark > > > > Actually, I'd prefer to keep as much of the discussion, especially the design-related part, > on the mail-list, to avoid raising the question "where do I post?" as much as possible. I agree that that's a problem. Just so that people understand why I'm suggesting using the newsgroup: - I've yet to find a mailer that's as good at dealing with threads as my newsreader. For day-to-day work, and bug issues, and things like that, that's not a big deal. For wider-ranging design discussions, I've found that it's often confusing on the mailing list, because I need to figure out which thread I'm responding to. The database discussion recently was hard for me to follow at times, because people were responding to different messages than I initially thought they were; but the way that my mailer threaded the messages, it was hard to see that. - There's a lot of day-to-day traffic in the mailing list, most of which can be treated as very transient. It would be nice to be able to keep those separate from the more long-term stuff without involving manual effort. (I'm a clutz. Several times, trying to keep my mailbox sizes manageable, I've accidentally deleted something that I really wanted to keep, because it appeared in the middle of a big bunch of messages dealing with some issue that we'd fixed. While I can always go back to the archive and pull out a message that I accidentally got rid of, it's a pain.) Most of this could be addressed by getting two mailing lists - one for transient issues, and one for design discussions. If people prefer that option over using the newsgroup, I can ask Eclipse if they'll give us a second group. If people like it the way it is, that's fine, we'll leave it alone, use the newsgroup for user issues, and keep everything else in the one mailing list. If others agree with me that it would be nice to separate things, then we can go whatever route most people prefer: newsgroup, separate mailing list, or whatever. -Mark -- Mark Craig Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center *** The Stellation project: Advanced SCM for Collaboration *** http://www.eclipse.org/stellation *** Work Email: mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------- Personal Email: markcc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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