+1, I brought this same thing up on the Sqoop VOTE. It is definitely confusing for me :)
Cheers, Chris On Mar 5, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Billie J Rinaldi > <billie.j.rina...@ugov.gov> wrote: >> Note: This vote began in a separate thread, but only received 1 non-binding >> vote in >> 40 hours. I am posting a new thread so more people will notice and have >> time to vote. > > At least for me and probably also for other GMail-users the original > vote message got included in the same thread as the previous [RESULT] > of the community vote which got cc'd to general@, making it a bit > difficult to spot the actual IPMC vote call. > > There's recently been a few other cases where a vote or another thread > has been going on simultaneously on both podling-dev@ and general@, > and in such cases it can be a bit difficult to tell which list is > actually being addressed. For example the recent community vote on > graduating RAT/Creadur had a lot of responses sent only to general@, > which seemed a bit misplaced to me. > > It's not too big a deal, but to avoid some extra confusion it might be > useful if people avoided cross-posting between lists and instead send > a forward or an archive URL in cases where information needs to be > passed across lists. That should help make the context of each thread > clearer. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org