[Ctk-developers] a story of two lists

[Stephen Aylward]

I think having two lists is a good idea.

Many people will simply subscribe to both - but different people will
have different interests and levels of involvement.   My thought is
that perhaps the second list would be for people who want to track the
community without knowing anything about the code (e.g., program
officers at funding agencies, administrators, etc).   As such, perhaps
we should change the names and purposes of the list slightly:

ctk-developers covers all things related to the code: architectural
discussions, copyright, licensing, which libraries to include, etc.
This is the really active, high-traffic list.

ctk-announcements covers all things "public": advertising and
organizational matters of the community: meetings, grant proposals,
funding opportunities, etc.   It is intended for the passive
participants.   Hence "announcements"    It should not receive heavy
traffic or people will unsubscribe.

I don't feel strongly about this - but I think it might be hard to
separate copyright from library inclusion discussions, implementation
from architecture discussions, etc., and most of the time people
join/leave lists based on traffic/spam.   We should make it easy for
everyone to track us and yet not involve them in every discussion.

Stephen


On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Tarbox, Lawrence <tarboxl at mir.wustl.edu> wrote:
> Good idea.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ctk-developers-bounces at commontk.org [mailto:ctk-developers-bounces at commontk.org] On Behalf Of Marco Viceconti
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 8:12 AM
> To: ctk-developers at commontk.org
> Subject: [Ctk-developers] a story of two lists
>
> Dear All:
>   I am very happy to see that the CTK community is really starting
> up.  But I see a potential risk in the current communication model.
> As it is now, we have a single mailing list to discuss everything from
> the single cmake instruction that breaks the dashboard to the
> copyright issues.  I know some of you have a role in your
> organisations that cover this entire spectrum, but I also know that in
> my organisation, and I suspect in other as well, the persons that are
> interested in some topics are not the same that are interested in
> others.
>
> If this is true for others I would ask we split the list in two, ctk-
> developers and ctk-governance.  In the first we shall continue to
> discuss all implementation problems, in the second issues such as
> licensing, copyright, architectural choices, community development, etc.
>
> Of course one would be allowed so sign up to both, so that for those
> who cover all aspects would not change much. But for the others we
> could partition the communication more effectively, which usually
> improves the level of participation.
>
> Comments are welcome
>
> Marco
>
>
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