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RE: [eclipse-dev] Is there any interest in a committers forum?
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It's currently true that there is no
general forum for Eclipse committers across all Eclipse projects. However
the current convention, for whatever reason, is that Eclipse mailing lists
are for committers while newsgroups are for the entire community. Thus,
I will risk reopening the "mailing list vs. newsgroup" debate
by suggesting that a mailing list makes more sense than a newsgroup for
this kind of forum.
According to the mailing lists page,
eclipse-dev is for the platform project, which as Randy pointed out isn't
particularly intuitive. I would suggest moving eclipse-dev to the
"Eclipse General" category on the mailing lists page, officially
making it a forum for committers on all projects. There is already
a platform-dev mailing list for communication among committers on the platform
project, although it is currently unused by committers because it is overwhelmed
by user questions. Moderating that list in the same way eclipse-dev
is moderated would be needed to make that list useful again (only moderating
non-committer messages).
In short, I already think we have enough
committer mailing lists, but we could tweak their stated audiences to make
much better use of the ones we already have. Having said all that, I won't
vote "-1" on a committer newsgroup, if there are people who prefer
that format who would make use of it.
John
"Mike Milinkovich"
<mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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20/09/2005 05:36 PM
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| RE: [eclipse-dev] Is there
any interest in a committers forum? |
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Before we go ahead and do this,
I would like to take a straw poll to see if committers actually want such
a committer newsgroup. I would personally welcome such a forum, but I think
it's worthwhile to ensure it will get used.
If we get three +1's and no -1's,
we will go ahead and set it up.
<snip>
It sounds like the consensus is
that eclipse.org should consider opening an 'eclipse.committers' newsgroup,
and if they do that then EclipseZone will mirror it to a forum for web-based
access.
From: eclipse-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:eclipse-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Randy Hudson
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 4:39 PM
To: General development mailing list of the Eclipse project.
Subject: RE: [eclipse-dev] Is there any interest in a committers forum?
I think you're on to something useful.
There is definitely a lack of coordination in areas such as build, testing,
and performance, which is something all project teams could collaborate
on.
However, this mailing list is for the "Eclipse Project", which
as the name implies (tongue-in-cheek) is just the core SDK and not all
Eclipse projects/committers.
BTW, why aren't GEF and other projects shown on the eclipsezone forum?
Is Eclipsezone part of Eclipse.org now, or am I thinking of something
else?
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