On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 3:51 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29 November 2017 at 13:44, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 5:59 AM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Top posting > >> > >> The proposal includes a user@ mailing list. > >> This is generally not recommended for podlings as their focus needs to > >> be on building the developer community. > >> > > > > Podlings are more than welcomed to include user@ lists. >
They might be "welcome" to have such a list. But as sebb quotes my explanation from years back: it is a Bad Idea. Community growth is almost directly proportional to activity. You cannot attract people to "crickets" mailing lists. And dividing/partitioning your (potential) community is the fastest way to crickets. The Incubator is about teaching people how to build a functional Apache community. Keeping users/devs on the same list is one of the easiest and most straight-forward lessons to teach. -g > > That is not my recollection. > > See for example: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201009.mbox/% > 3CAANLkTim7NzJ%2BBLY8AtkR5ZmDUXHR%2BNZxr44VSqGJ_O3D%40mail.gmail.com%3E > > > There's nothing stopping them from building developers and users at the > same time. > > That's extra work. > > If there is already an external users list, let that continue until > the project is ready to graduate, then migrate users across. > > But it seems wrong to create a new user list initially. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
