[ITK] Community versus Users Lists

[Matt McCormick]

Doodle polls are usually for scheduling times only (as far as I am
aware).  Perhaps a Google Form?

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On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> since ITK is now in a mature phase, there is not a lot of traffic on
> ITK-Developers. I suppose the best would be to completely transition to just
> one list (community) which was created for that purpose. This would simplify
> things.
>
> But having a poll sounds like a good idea. Did you mean something like a
> Doodle poll, or somehow restrict the poll to just the members of the 3
> mailing lists?
>
> Regards,
> Dženan
>
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Matt McCormick
> <matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The current situation is not optimal, and it is difficult to keep all
>> parties involved happy.
>>
>> - Some people do not want to be bothered to subscribe to more than one
>> list, be it community, insight-users, or insight-developers.
>> - Some people on insight-developers do not want to be auto-subscribed
>> to a different list that has a different amount of traffic.
>> - There are a number of non-mailman interfaces to the mailing lists
>> that may not adapt to changes (Nabble, GMane, etc.), and some people
>> use these interfaces exclusively.
>>
>> Any change will result in some unhappy campers, but some change may
>> still be necessary to improve the status quo.
>>
>> Perhaps we should create a poll distributed to all lists to select a
>> way forward? Other constructive ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Andras Lasso <lasso at queensu.ca> wrote:
>> > I completely agree. Either a single community list or pair of
>> > devel&users
>> > makes sense.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > My personal experience: I've signed up to the community list when it was
>> > created and unsubscribed from users. However, it was quite annoying that
>> > I
>> > received emails from users list but my responses were bounced. So, I had
>> > to
>> > sign up again to the users list. I still don’t know where to send new
>> > posts:
>> > users or community.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Andras
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From: Michka Popoff
>> > Sent: March 26, 2016 14:24
>> > To: Matt McCormick
>> > Cc: community at itk.org
>> > Subject: Re: [ITK] Community versus Users Lists
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > one thought about this. If I remember well, (but I may be mistaken),
>> > the community at itk.org address was introduced to replace the two others.
>> >
>> > Now, we have to follow 3 different mailing lists. The mail traffic is
>> > okay
>> > for me on
>> > these 3 lists, so having only one would be great.
>> > It would help people to know which one to use.
>> >
>> > Or we should go back to the old behaviour, with a user/developer list.
>> > But I think developers want also to know what they users are doing,
>> > so they are often registered on the two (/three) anyway.
>> >
>> > Michka
>> >
>> >> On 17 Mar 2016, at 16:42, Matt McCormick <matt.mccormick at kitware.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Toby,
>> >>
>> >> To post to the insight-users or insight-developers list, your email
>> >> account currently needs to be subscribed there, too.
>> >>
>> >> Matt
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:47 AM, Wood, Tobias <tobias.wood at kcl.ac.uk>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> Hello,
>> >>>
>> >>> Apologies for a newbie question but this has been bugging me for a
>> >>> while.
>> >>> I am subscribed to the community at itk.org mailing list. As noted on the
>> >>> sign-up page, this also receives all the mail from insight-users (and
>> >>> insight-developers). When I try to reply to a message from one of
>> >>> these
>> >>> lists in my mail client, the reply-to address is set to insight-users.
>> >>> If I
>> >>> send the message as is, I get a failure message telling me I am not
>> >>> subscribed to the mailing list (which is correct).
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> How should I be responding to such e-mail threads? Will a reply to
>> >>> community at itk.org forward the message on to insight-users? Or should I
>> >>> be
>> >>> subscribing to all 3 mailing lists (seems suboptimal as I assume I
>> >>> will get
>> >>> multiple copies of messages).
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks,
>> >>> Toby
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