Vote is required according to [1] [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html#new-mailing-list
On 5/28/13 11:45 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: >Shouldn't everyone be able to subscribe? Or are you saying that but >did I miss it... ;-) > >EdB > >On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:32 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala ><bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Okay, moving to a new thread. >> >> Do we need a vote for this or is there sufficient consensus in the >> community? >> >> We dont want to lose people because of all the spam that gets generated >>by >> the JIRA emails. That should be a big priority for us. >> >> The proposal is: >> >> 1. Create a list: j...@flex.apache.org. >> 2. All JIRA emails generated by >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX will >> go to j...@flex.apache.org >> 3. No JIRA emails will be sent to dev@flex.apache.org >> 4. We add all committers and PMC members to the j...@flex.apache.org >>list >> 5. When a new committer/PMC member is inducted, we add them to the >> j...@flex.apache.org as one of the setup activities. >> >> Any comments/suggestions? >> >> Thanks, >> Om >> >> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Erik de Bruin <e...@ixsoftware.nl> >>wrote: >> >>> +1 on the JIRA on another list, do we need a vote on that, or can we >>> just ask INFRA for it? >>> >>> Maybe this discussion should be in a separate thread, however... >>> >>> EdB >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Nicholas Kwiatkowski >>><nicho...@spoon.as> >>> wrote: >>> > I would prefer JIRA activity to be on another list. I've heard from >>> quite >>> > a few people in my User Group that they dropped off dev@ people of >>>the >>> > noise of JIRA. I think those of us who want to know what is >>>committed >>> > will subscribe to those (plus, it makes filtering those messages >>>into a >>> > separate folder easier ;P ) >>> > >>> > -Nick >>> > >>> > >>> > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: >>> > >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On 5/28/13 10:25 AM, "Greg Reddin" <gred...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> >On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> >>>wrote: >>> >> > >>> >> >> >>> >> >> Greg, do you think donations like these need to have a goal of >>>being >>> >> >> integrated with Apache Flex or becoming its own project? >>>Personally, >>> >> >>I'd >>> >> >> be ok with Apache Flex being a warehouse of all kinds of >>>Flex-related >>> >> >>code >>> >> >> even if there is no active development for it. >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> >There's a couple of things to consider here: >>> >> > >>> >> >1) The board does not favor "umbrella" projects. Jakarta was an >>> umbrella >>> >> >project and it contained (at one time) Struts, Tomcat, Commons, >>>JMeter, >>> >> >and >>> >> >a whole bunch of Java-related projects. It became clear that the >>> Jakarta >>> >> >community was too fragmented to get consensus so it spun off all >>>those >>> >> >projects into TLPs. That could easily start to happen here. >>> >> That would make sense for Jakarta, especially if there was active >>> >> development on all of those pieces. I'm not sure that will be the >>>case >>> >> here. I think there's a good chance that these application >>>frameworks >>> may >>> >> not have much activity. >>> >> >>> >> For me, incubation was so much work that it seems easier to take >>>these >>> >> code donations and see if a community forms around it and then spin >>>it >>> off >>> >> than going through the whole >>> >> proposal/initial-committers/mentors/infra-setup/graduation process. >>> >> >>> >> > >>> >> >2) This mailing list is already too high-traffic to follow. >>> Practically, >>> >> >we >>> >> >could probably already split up the Flex project into multiple >>> projects. >>> >> >It >>> >> >seems to me that folks are starting to gel around different >>>efforts, >>> like >>> >> >getting new releases of the SDK, vs. compilers, etc. It could be >>>that >>> we >>> >> >need to form new PMCs or it could be that we just need to enact >>> >> >sub-projects. But we have to be careful with sub-projects to avoid >>> point 1 >>> >> >above. >>> >> What are your thoughts on just having more mailing lists? We toyed >>>with >>> >> the notion of having all JIRA activity on a different list. I >>>haven't >>> >> looked at the stats, but Erik and I haven't done much >>> >> Falcon/FalconJX/FlexJS work over the last two weeks and I'm not sure >>> >> there's been less activity on the dev list. >>> >> >>> >> -Alex >>> >> > >>> >> >>> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ix Multimedia Software >>> >>> Jan Luykenstraat 27 >>> 3521 VB Utrecht >>> >>> T. 06-51952295 >>> I. www.ixsoftware.nl >>> > > > >-- >Ix Multimedia Software > >Jan Luykenstraat 27 >3521 VB Utrecht > >T. 06-51952295 >I. www.ixsoftware.nl
