[Ctk-developers] a story of two lists

[Marco Viceconti]

The idea or creating a public list for "passive" members called  
announcements is probably a good idea in due time; now it might be a  
bit too early for that, I do not know.

But what I proposed is different.  It is quite clear that in Kitware  
organisation the same person follow the entire life cycle of the  
software from general strategic issues such as copyright,  
architecture, etc. to actual hands-on programming.  But this is not  
the case in my organisation, where for example I do play an active  
role in architectural design, but I do not materially program myself  
since 19..., well a long while ago.

Now if most participating organisations are organised as Kitware, it  
make more sense to stay all on one list; on the contrary if the  
majority is organised as B3C, then it is better to split in two, both  
"active" but focused on different aspects.

Cheers

Marco




Il giorno 13 Apr 2010, alle ore 17:52, Stephen Aylward ha scritto:

> 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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