> One of thing things that the we need to look at is how to improve > communication across projects. Perhaps having some ontological mailing > lists would be part of a solution. > > What ideas and views do others have?
I know that mailing-lists are part of the foundation of the ASF and are a really useful way to communicate effectively. However my feeling is that we don't have the right tools or policies to use them as effectively as could be. For example, as a commiter, I find it extremely annoying that I have to subscribe to a mailing-list just to post a message on it. Also most archives aren't really user-friendly. Not being able to do a simple search on ALL mailing lists is for me a major drawback. So I'd suggest (if possible) the following ideas: * Give any commiter the necessary rights to send an e-mail on any mailing list without having to subscribe. * Provide fully searchable mailing-list archives. I think this would help reducing the boundaries between each project as any commiter would be able to comment and participate to a specific discussion on any project. And I'd simply define a few search criteria that I'm interested in and check these once a while on all list archives. Cheers, Matthieu. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
