wag Mailing Lists (was Re: [DotGNU]Working Groups plan v2)

[Stephen Compall]

Peter Minten wrote:
> WG's will also need mailing lists. The Auth, Arch, Biz and PR WG's have 
> mailing
> lists already. I propose that the Philosophy and Webservices WG's will get a
> separate mailing lists too. The Pnet-and-Libs WG however is a bit tricky. It
> would be most coherent to give it it's own ML too and to use dg-dev only for
> matters that affect DotGNU as a whole, however I suspect some resistance to
> that.

I've observed alot of specialized MLs around DotGNU, particularly how 
the developers list is abused where stuff belongs on other lists. Even 
worse, e.g., messages to developers have a better chance of debate than 
messages to the Pr-specific list. Today, the arch, pr, website, bizplan 
(which should be overloaded to support business-related discussion, 
eventually), and announcements lists are pretty much ignored. So my idea 
is this: keep everything on [developers], until a group's specific posts 
start crowding up the list (i.e., there are enough posters to it to 
warrant strong topic-specific, non-[developers]-supported discussion. 
And other posters are getting annoyed with the flood :) *Then* split off 
the WG to to its own list.

The reason is, once a discussion is split off, it tends to separate from 
the main project a little. It needs to be able to survive on its own. In 
my observation.

--
Stephen Compall
Also known as S11001001
DotGNU `Contributor' -- http://dotgnu.org

The main clarity, for me, was the sense that if you want to have a
decent life, you don't want to have bits of it closed off. This whole
idea of having the freedom to go in and to fix something and modify
it, whatever it may be, it really makes a difference. It makes one
think happily that after you've lived a few years that what you've
done is worthwhile. Because otherwise it just gets taken away and
thrown out or abandoned or, at the very least, you no longer have any
relation to it. It's like losing a bit of your life.
        -- Robert Chassell