Echoing robert...
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Matthieu Riou wrote:
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.
It's not a rights issue, but simply a mechanical issue of how the lists
work. Maybe there is a post-ok-don't-send mode. Or maybe we could cook
up a gateway for committers [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something...
* Provide fully searchable mailing-list archives.
Hey! thanks for volunteering! :)
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.
Well, back in Jakarta's heyday, the general list was the meeting place
for all the subprojects. It was a lot of fun.
I'm not sure we could do that on an apache-wide scale though. Part of
the fun was because we knew each other, and that there was a topic
domain that was narrow, but broad enough to span Jakarta.
And I'd simply define a few search criteria
that I'm interested in and check these once a while on all list
archives.
Hey! Thanks for volunteering!
:)
Maybe we should subscribe all apache mail lists to one google account
and figure out how to have a web site proxy searches into it...
geir
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