On 03/23/2010 06:12 AM, Philippe (Merov) Bossut wrote: > - Mailing list: may be the most widely used tool. The problem I see > with it is that it mixes everything: small requests, long discussions, > policies, technicalities, etc... Other FLOSS projects use a variety of > lists, breaking things in categories (Mozilla for instance). It tends > to become another kind of mess with cross posting. Mailman seems to allow to define several topic categories for each list. Here's what you see when you edit your subscription: >> *Which topic categories would you like to subscribe to?* >> >> By selecting one or more topics, you can filter the traffic on the >> mailing list, so as to receive only a subset of the messages. If a >> message matches one of your selected topics, then you will get the >> message, otherwise you will not. >> >> If a message does not match any topic, the delivery rule depends on >> the setting of the option below. If you do not select any topics of >> interest, you will get all the messages sent to the mailing list. >> >> /No topics defined/ >> *Do you want to receive messages that do not match any topic filter?* >> >> This option only takes effect if you've subscribed to at least one >> topic above. It describes what the default delivery rule is for >> messages that don't match any topic filter. Selecting /No/ says that >> if the message does not match any topic filters, then you won't get >> the message, while selecting /Yes/ says to deliver such non-matching >> messages to you. >> >> If no topics of interest are selected above, then you will receive >> every message sent to the mailing list. >> >> No >> Yes >> I've never seen this feature in use, but I guess a message can match several topic filters at once. So if all topics of a given message are on the same list, there's no need for cross-posting (and still only those interested in the topic(s) would get the message). > Yes, Gmail rocks and threaded discussions a god send but still... Thunderbird isn't bad for it, either. I guess other sufficently advaned email clients work similarly well.
> - wiki: it's one we underuse. The problem is that it needs a lot of > wiki gardening and things can simply die there with no clear resolution. The wiki format is great for documentation of both, ideas/plans and facts, and for discussing that documentation. I feel it's less suited for discussing the documented subjects themselves, though I can't really explain why that is. > - IW meetings: we have our weekly Hippo meeting and I truly encourage > folks to come. It's my favorite comm tool personally as it's a > dedicated moment and we have full attention of everyone. Should we do > more of this? If there were several meetings per week, most would probably choose to only visit one of them, and would have to read the transcripts to keep up with what's been discussed at the other one(s). If they then want to comment on something said at a meeting they didn't attend, it gets complicated and the discussion would probably have to continue on the mailing list or on the forum. Maybe the length of the meeting should be adaptable depending on the agenda. Though, we then should be able to drop non-pressing topics or reschedule them for less busy weeks, so that the meeting length doesn't increase out of control. I'd suggest to always keep it between half an hour and two hours. > - Forum: there is actually one for Open Source > (https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/forums/open-source). I know > that some folks at LL prefers this at it allows to create topics and > sub threads more easily. I went there today and posted in some > discussions. I think it's something we should use for specific > discussions that would hijack the mailing list but are not mature for > JIRA yet. Thoughts? I'm not totally opposed to use the forum, but I'd like to see some details fixed first, that'd make it a more pleasant experience. WEB-1429 <http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-1429>, WEB-1447 <http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-1447> and WEB-1399 <http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-1399> are some of those. cheers Boroondas
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