[sugar] Proposal: Activity developers mailing list
ffm
ffm at laptop.org
Mon Aug 4 09:45:01 EDT 2008
Morgan Collett wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 15:23, Morgan Collett
<morgan.collett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've raised the idea a couple of times to have a mailing list
>>> specifically for activity developers, which would be uncluttered by
>>> all the traffic on the devel and even sugar lists. That would
>>> hopefully have the result that people stay subscribed, or at least
>>> notice mails which are important to them.
>>>
>>> Currently, I'm not even sure which list out of devel and sugar is
>>> going to reach more activity developers, hence this cross-post and
>>> many others.
>
> I've been looking at the OLPC wiki, to see what we are advising
> contributors to sign up for:
>
> * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program#Project_Hosting points
> to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_hosting which says subscribe to
> devel@ when asking for project hosting.
>
> * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program#Expectations_of_Recipients
> points to
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers/Communication#Minimum_Communication_Requirements
> which says subscribe to community-news@ and devel at .
>
> So IMO the sugar list is more relevant, but the devel list is more
> likely to reach everyone. Cross-posting to every list all the time
> seems counter to netiquette, and as
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting says, "if all messages were
> crossposted to every group, then every group would look exactly the
> same."
>
> What I want out of this discussion is a clear recommendation for
> activity authors to subscribe to a particular place that we can count
> on, to the extent that that is possible.
>
We can have them subscribe to devel and apply filters (via the mailman
web interface) to use predefined "topics" (regexps) that, for example,
contain the string "breaks-python" or whatever.
-FFM
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