Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-07-03 Thread Noah Slater
"Wade" might be a little OTT. ;) I think the doc is too terse, if anything. (But actually, I think it strikes the balance very well.) On 3 July 2013 17:51, Eric Johnson wrote: > My one suggestion would be to group all the historical patterns/commentary > at the end of the document. That way, pe

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-07-03 Thread Eric Johnson
My one suggestion would be to group all the historical patterns/commentary at the end of the document. That way, people looking for specific information about current practices will not have to wade through historical information. Eric On 7/2/13 6:59 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: On Thu, May 9,

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-07-03 Thread Noah Slater
Nice. Thanks Marvin! On 3 July 2013 06:00, Craig L Russell wrote: > Marvin, > > Nice work. +1 > > Craig > > On Jul 2, 2013, at 6:59 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Noah Slater wrote: > >> Hey Marvin, > >> > >> Did you get anywhere with this? > > > > Finally, ye

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-07-02 Thread Craig L Russell
Marvin, Nice work. +1 Craig On Jul 2, 2013, at 6:59 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Noah Slater wrote: >> Hey Marvin, >> >> Did you get anywhere with this? > > Finally, yes. I've written up the subject on the Incubator wiki and linked to > it from the proposal g

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-07-02 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (398J)
Stein Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 7:32 PM To: "general@incubator.apache.org" Subject: Re: Creating announce@ lists by default >On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Marvin Humphrey >wrote: >> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:29 PM, No

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-07-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Noah Slater wrote: >> Hey Marvin, >> >> Did you get anywhere with this? > > Finally, yes. I've written up the subject on the Incubator wiki and linked to > it from the proposal guide. > > https://wiki.apac

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-07-02 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Noah Slater wrote: > Hey Marvin, > > Did you get anywhere with this? Finally, yes. I've written up the subject on the Incubator wiki and linked to it from the proposal guide. https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/MailingListOptions http://incubator.apache.org/gui

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-05-13 Thread Joe Brockmeier
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Luciano Resende wrote: > If I was the press/analyst folks or security/sysadmin folks, I'd > probably prefer to receive all these announcements over one list, then > having to figure out every announcement list for each apache project > in use in my infrastructure

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-05-09 Thread Noah Slater
Hey Marvin, Did you get anywhere with this? Thanks, On 30 March 2013 15:39, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > > Thanks Greg. Sane advice. I'll add this to my todo list and see if I can > > come up with a patch for the docs. > > The obvious place t

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-30 Thread Noah Slater
I really like this idea, Marvin. If you're gonna run with it, I'll take a step back. On 30 March 2013 15:39, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > > Thanks Greg. Sane advice. I'll add this to my todo list and see if I can > > come up with a patch for th

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-30 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > Thanks Greg. Sane advice. I'll add this to my todo list and see if I can > come up with a patch for the docs. The obvious place to patch is the descriptive paragraph here: http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html#template-mailing-li

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-30 Thread Noah Slater
Thanks Greg. Sane advice. I'll add this to my todo list and see if I can come up with a patch for the docs. On 28 March 2013 06:50, Greg Stein wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Noah Slater wrote: > >... > > I don't believe we should force an announce@ list on anybody. But I do > > thin

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Noah Slater wrote: >... > I don't believe we should force an announce@ list on anybody. But I do > think it might be a good idea to mention a few of the standard lists that > projects might consider requesting. No strong opinion. Generally, I don't think podlings

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Noah Slater
On 27 March 2013 18:37, Mark Struberg wrote: > My personal experience: There are a few people registered to > annou...@apache.org, but there is a low registration rate for the > respective subproject lists. At least not for most projects. > That's to be expected, though, right? We have something

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Struberg
ubject: Re: Creating announce@ lists by default > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Luciano Resende > wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Noah Slater > wrote: >>> So we just set out a policy for podlings to follow that says something >>> like: if you

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Luciano Resende wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Noah Slater wrote: >> So we just set out a policy for podlings to follow that says something >> like: if you use a project-specific announce@ list, anything you send to it >> must also be copied to annou.

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread sebb
On 27 March 2013 17:23, Luciano Resende wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Noah Slater wrote: >> So we just set out a policy for podlings to follow that says something >> like: if you use a project-specific announce@ list, anything you send to it >> must also be copied to annou...@apache.

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Noah Slater
Putting it in policy is probably as close as we can get to automation. ;) On 27 March 2013 17:23, Luciano Resende wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > > So we just set out a policy for podlings to follow that says something > > like: if you use a project-specific ann

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > So we just set out a policy for podlings to follow that says something > like: if you use a project-specific announce@ list, anything you send to it > must also be copied to annou...@apache.org, and vice-versa. > > This is how I expect all ann

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Noah Slater
On 27 March 2013 17:15, sebb wrote: > > Well, I found that sending a separate e-mail to announce@a.o was > useful for two reasons: > - more likely to get bounces; wanted to distinguish those from TLP list > bounces > - people sometime reply all > - announce@a.o requires an ASF address; I use GMai

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread sebb
On 27 March 2013 16:48, Noah Slater wrote: > On 27 March 2013 16:28, Luciano Resende wrote: >> >> >> Do the general announce list lag behind because there are individual lists >> ? >> > > I see no reason why they would. Well, I found that sending a separate e-mail to announce@a.o was useful for

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Noah Slater
On 27 March 2013 16:28, Luciano Resende wrote: > > > Do the general announce list lag behind because there are individual lists > ? > I see no reason why they would. On 27 March 2013 16:31, Luciano Resende wrote: > > The minute that is in the guides, I'm positive that 100% of new > podlings p

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > Bertrand, yes, I am not sold on the idea of doing it by default. But > perhaps sort of advisory, highlighting it as an option, and giving reasons > why it might be a good idea for some projects? > > What would I have to do to add that? If I pre

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Luciano Resende
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > >> I am under the impression that having a low-volume, high-signal >> announcement channel is generally beneficial to most projects that try it. > > I agree that such lists are useful.

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Noah Slater wrote: > Bertrand, yes, I am not sold on the idea of doing it by default. But > perhaps sort of advisory, highlighting it as an option, and giving reasons > why it might be a good idea for some projects? Yes, sounds good to me if it's just a suggestion

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Noah Slater
Bertrand, yes, I am not sold on the idea of doing it by default. But perhaps sort of advisory, highlighting it as an option, and giving reasons why it might be a good idea for some projects? What would I have to do to add that? If I prepare a patch to the docs, would it be CTR or RTC? On 27 Marc

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > ...As to whether such lists should be encouraged for new podlings (probably by > putting a stub in the proposal template alongside the other lists), I can't > say that I have a strong opinion IIUC Noah's proposal goes further and sugge

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-26 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > I am under the impression that having a low-volume, high-signal > announcement channel is generally beneficial to most projects that try it. I agree that such lists are useful. I like to subscribe to individual announce lists for security pu

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-26 Thread Matt Franklin
On Tuesday, March 26, 2013, Andrei Savu wrote: > I think we should see this as option and let the podling decide. > > In some cases it's useful but most of time it's enough if you filter > the dev / user lists for messages that contain ANNOUNCE in the subject > line. +1 > > -- Andrei Savu / ax

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-26 Thread Andrei Savu
I think we should see this as option and let the podling decide. In some cases it's useful but most of time it's enough if you filter the dev / user lists for messages that contain ANNOUNCE in the subject line. -- Andrei Savu / axemblr.com On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Noah Slater wrote: >

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-26 Thread Noah Slater
Why would you want to subscribe to the announce list of every new incubator project? If you wanted to do that, you'd just subscribe to general@incubator.apache.org, or even annou...@apache.org. Please note, I am not suggesting we disband annou...@apache.org. We already have plenty of TLPs using an

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-26 Thread Luciano Resende
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > Yep. Obviously, I'm aware we have a foundation-wide announce list. :) > > It's not very helpful for people who are only interested in one or two > projects, however. > > If I am using Hadoop, and only care about knowing about new Hadoop releas

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-26 Thread Noah Slater
Yep. Obviously, I'm aware we have a foundation-wide announce list. :) It's not very helpful for people who are only interested in one or two projects, however. If I am using Hadoop, and only care about knowing about new Hadoop releases or security disclosures, I do not want to: a) subscribe to a

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-26 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Luciano Resende wrote: > ...We already have a Apache wide announce list, which is used for release > announcements and probably can or is already used for the other things > you mentioned Yes, see http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-a

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-26 Thread Luciano Resende
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > Luciano, release announcements and security disclosures. > > Jordan, can you clarify what you understand by "be maintained"? Just to be > clear, this is a one time operation, and as far as I know, comes with no > maintenance costs whatsoever.

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-26 Thread Noah Slater
Luciano, release announcements and security disclosures. Jordan, can you clarify what you understand by "be maintained"? Just to be clear, this is a one time operation, and as far as I know, comes with no maintenance costs whatsoever. So the "too much" part of "too much for little gain" doesn't ap

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-26 Thread Jordan Zimmerman
There are already 3 public and 1 private lists that have to be maintained. Another list just for announcements seems like too much for little gain. The users list should suffice for announcements (with [ANN] in the subject). -JZ On Mar 26, 2013, at 4:05 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > Incubator, >

Re: Creating announce@ lists by default

2013-03-26 Thread Luciano Resende
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > Incubator, > > Is there a reason we don't recommend podlings create an announce@ list by > default? > > I am under the impression that having a low-volume, high-signal > announcement channel is generally beneficial to most projects that try it.