My apologies for the tardy response.
The -dev list must be used for project-specific communication
between project committers. There's a couple of reasons for this
in addition to the very good reason provided by Andreas...
First, to join the "dev" list, participants agree that
contributions are governed by our Terms Of Use. This provides
some legal cover when ideas (or even small bits of code) are
used in implementations (note that if you take code off of a
mailing list, you still need to go through the Eclipse IP Due
Diligence process). Further, these communications contain
important information that must be maintained indefinitely, and
by keeping archives under our webmaster control, we are
insulated from changes in business plans, etc. of third-party
providers.
Communication with the user community is more flexible. You
really do need to go where the users go. You don't need to keep
the forum, but if you do, please make sure that it is monitored
regularly. If you do decide to use an external service for this
sort of group, as much as is possible, please make sure that the
web presence conforms to the trademark guidelines (e.g. include
a trademark message "RDF4J is a trademark of the Eclipse
Foundation").
HTH,
Wayne
On 27/05/16 08:43 AM, Andreas Sewe
wrote:
Hi,
During Eclipse project initiation, the webmaster created the standard
new fora for us to use: the rdf4j-dev mailinglist, and the RDF4J web
forum at https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/f/316/ .
My question is: is there any preference from within the Eclipse
community to switch to these new fora, or can we (as is our current
preference) continue using our existing groups? Are there any advantages
that I may be overlooking to switch to these?
I think having the developers list (as opposed to the user list) here at
eclipse.org makes sense, in particular as there are a few processes that
send mails to rdf4j-dev (committer elections through the Portal, for
example).
I don't know whether these processes can be configured to use a
different mailing list or whether they always use the eclipse.org list.
If the latter, every developer has to stay subscribed to both
rdf4j@xxxxxxxxxxx and the Google group to not miss out on anything.
Hope that helps.
Andreas
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