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[eclipse.org-committers] A new medium for discussions among all committers
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Dear committers,
I'm excited to present you a new medium
for
open discussions among all
committers!
transparency, it's not become my original suggestion, but
we decided to use the existing
eclipse.org-committers
mailing list that
you all know, and make it
moderated.
What does that mean?
-
We have
set up some Guidelines [2] for
the use of this list,
which I highly recommend to read. These are also available
from the
Development Resources Wiki ("Reaching
Out").
-
The
Guidelines are not meant as censorship, but as
a tool to make the list
really productive and encourage
all of you to actually use
it -- without having to be afraid
that it will mail-bomb
people and scare them away.
-
Moderators ensure that the Guidelines are obeyed. All
moderation
must be justified by the Guidelines (no
shutting up unwanted contents without a transparent
reason).
The most important guideline, I think, is that all inquiries on
the eclipse.org-committers mailing list must use an
alternate
return channel for feedback and discussions. Bugzilla is
preferred, but any other medium (mailinglist, newsgroup,
forum,
survey...) is also possible. This ensures that the
committers
mailing list itself remains low-traffic and useful while
everybody
can choose to opt-in on a discussion or not.
We anticipate that these guidelines will make the committers
mailing
list especially useful for questions
like "has anybody
else already..." or "what other projects deal with...",
which are not specific to a project or technology
represented
elsewhere. Please refer to the Guidelines for where to
turn
with other kinds of questions.
As another goodie to better handle potentially increased
incoming traffic, Denis has made it possible for every
committer to switch the list to digest mode via the list
I'm hoping that these changes will benefit all of us, and
I'd like to
encourage all of you again to really make use of
this new medium.
I'd like to thank all the great people who've helped making
this
happen, especially Guillaume for the awsome survey, Denis
for the idea and implementation, Ed and Karl for controversive
yet very
professional discussions, and Dave, John and Gunnar
for helpful
insights and comments.
PS:
Your initial moderators are Denis Roy
(Eclipse Foundation),
John Arthorne (IBM), and Ed Merks
(Macro Modeling) for the
Eastern time zone, as well as Martin Oberhuber (Wind
River)
for the European time zone. We'd appreciate volunteers
to
moderate for the Asia/Pacific and US/Western time zones,
if you are interested please comment on the bug[1].
PPS:
As a return channel for this message (in line with the
Guidelines),
please post comments on the bug[1].
Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical
Staff, Wind River
Target Management Project
Lead, DSDP PMC Member
and in line with the tendency seen in the Survey [2], I have
requested
creation of a new mailing list via bugzilla
[3]:
Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical
Staff, Wind River
Target Management
Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
Dear committers,
I created this site to sum up the
opinions of those of you who took time to express themselves about "What is
appropriate use of this list ?"
http://sites.google.com/site/eclipsesurveyOn
this site, you will find the survey (still active so feel free to submit),
and an embedded version of
this
spreadsheet ( with charts**, because we love charts as much as
screenshots : )
For the moment 60 people have answered : about 6.5%
of this list - which is not very representative ( I had to point this out
).
I will also add the additionnal proposals in a near
future.
Kind regards,
Guillaume
PS** : Charts are in Flash,
I'll also add pictures version to let anyone view them.
PPS : I created a
new thread to be sure to let everyone participate ( even people who filtered
the previous conversations )
