Re: [Lucy] Divide user mailing lists by host language

[Peter Karman <pe...@peknet.com>]

Marvin Humphrey wrote on 6/28/10 3:12 PM:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:01:27PM -0000, Apache Wiki wrote:
>>   === Mailing lists ===
> 
>> +  * lucy-perl-users
> 
> As mentioned on IRC, I added a "lucy-perl-users at incubator" mailing list.  I
> think that the communities that use Lucy bindings will be distinct, and that
> e.g. Ruby users may not want to see support mail for Perl or C or PHP
> bindings.
> 
> So as a TLP, our user mailing lists would be arranged like so:
> 
>  * perl-users@lucy.apache.org
>  * c-users@lucy.apache.org
>  * ruby-users@lucy.apache.org
>  * etc.
> 
> The risk is that some lists may be low traffic, but I think that's acceptable.
> 
> The dev- and commits- lists should be unified, though, IMO.

My concern is that this seems a little premature and potentially confusing.
I.e., it forces users to triage their own questions as to whether their
conversation topic is host-language-specific or not.

My experience with Xapian, which has a moderate (5-10 messages a week) amount of
traffic, where there are only 2 lists (-dev and -users), is that all the various
language bindings are discussed on the -users list and it's not particularly
distracting. Language-specific threads can actually end up being illuminating to
non-users of the language.

Anyway, is it a big deal to add more lists later, based on demand, rather than
splitting them up in the initial proposal?

-- 
Peter Karman  .  http://peknet.com/  .  peter@peknet.com

Re: [Lucy] Divide user mailing lists by host language

[Nathan Kurz <na...@verse.com>]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:44:42PM -0500, Peter Karman wrote:
>> Anyway, is it a big deal to add more lists later, based on demand, rather than
>> splitting them up in the initial proposal?
>
> OK, that works for me.  Let's start with the unified user list and worry about
> the rest once we have users.  :)

+1

--nate

Re: [Lucy] Divide user mailing lists by host language

[Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:44:42PM -0500, Peter Karman wrote:
> Anyway, is it a big deal to add more lists later, based on demand, rather than
> splitting them up in the initial proposal?

OK, that works for me.  Let's start with the unified user list and worry about
the rest once we have users.  :)

Marvin Humphrey