[Engine-devel] Getting rid of arch at ovirt.org?
Dave Neary
dneary at redhat.com
Tue Jul 17 15:28:32 UTC 2012
Hi,
On 07/15/2012 01:53 AM, Ayal Baron wrote:
> Sorry for cross-posting, but in this case I think it's relevant.
>
> The original idea was that every time we wish to discuss a new cross-component feature we should do it over arch list. However, it would appear that de-facto usually engine-devel and vdsm-devel are being used (cross posted).
> Currently engine-devel has 211 subscribers, arch has 160 and vdsm-devel has 128 so from this perspective again, arch seems less relevant.
> I propose we ditch arch and keep the other 2 mailing lists.
> I'm not sure whether new cross-component features should be discussed solely on engine-devel or cross-posted (there are probably people who wouldn't care about engine side but would still like to know about such changes).
>
> Thoughts?
It's a tricky problem, as Karsten said. In fact, one of the questions I
had when joining the list is, where do all the developers hang out? And
outside of arch@ there wasn't a good answer.
I'm not on vdsm-devel, neither vdsm-devel or engine-devel are mentioned
at all on http://www.ovirt.org/project/community/ and like Karsten I
think there is a role for a list which allows everyone to talk about
topics unrelated to a specific component, but also not related to
"users" who are not contributing to the project.
I agree, though, that the cross-posting is an issue. It seems like I
need to cross-post every message to at least 2 or 3 lists to get
everyone I'm interested in reaching - this suggests to me that we have
too many communication channels, and need to consolidate a little. That,
or we need to help people understand which forums they should be in for
which types of communications, so that we don't constantly have the
problem of cross-posting to be on the safe side. That's the solution I
prefer.
Cheers,
Dave.
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