+1 to the concept, and there's precedent with the geospatial list. Bertrand mentions the tech@ list but I don't think anybody knows that it's there or what it is for. Lists with topic names seem to have better discoverability.
Note also that they attract more spam so ensure that you have some willing moderators. I think an iot@ list is a great way to attract new participants who aren't already aware of the various projects and what they do. On Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 03:34 Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de wrote: > Hi all, > > at the moment I’m involved in 3 Apache project in the IoT area. A lot of > the work I have been doing is to help make all of these work together. > PLC4X – NiFi Integration > PLC4X – Apache Kafka Connect > PLC4X – Camel Integration > PLC4X – Edgent Integration > Edgent - … integration > > However sometimes I could for example need some help by NiFi Guys to check > my NiFi integration, have Kafka Connect gurus provide suggestions on how to > improve our connector, … > > There’s a lot happening here and signing up and keeping up to date for all > the dev-lists of all the projects around here would leave no time to > actually work on things. > > So my idea is: As we have a list of general categories for our projects, > how about creating general “@apache.org” mailinglists for each of these > categories for the purpose of coordinating such efforts. > > What do you think? > > > Chris >
