[Koha] Purpose of this list? - Adding more lists?

[Nicole Engard]

> Henri (list moderator for koha-dev) can possibly clarify, but the developer
> list pretty clearly says it's for developers. If we wanted to do anything
> there, it could be to moderate who joins the developer list.

I would think we wouldn't want to moderate who joins lists - just
because the nature of open source is that anyone can become a
developer and having membership moderated seems sort of closed off.


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On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Rachel Hamilton-Williams
<rachel at katipo.co.nz> wrote:
> HI ya
>
>> Thanks for the input.  Is anyone against having three lists?  And does
>> anyone know how we can make it clear what each list is for?  I know
>> some lists have moderators - as I've been contacted by them on
>> occasion for going off topic :)
>>
>
> Henri (list moderator for koha-dev) can possibly clarify, but the developer
> list pretty clearly says it's for developers. If we wanted to do anything
> there, it could be to moderate who joins the developer list.
>
> If there was more general Koha talk then we could have a talk list & a
> support list - but it doesn't seem like there is enough of that?
>
> There is a bit of a catch 22 here. Adding another list does just make for
> more lists to monitor if you're one of the question answerers, rather than
> question askers :-)
>
> If it's useful to the developers to try and separate out the various streams
> I'm happy to setup a Koha support mailing list and we can copy everyone from
> koha list onto koha-support as well, and then folks can opt out at will.
> There will still be a lot of the tech archives on the koha list, so we might
> not get a "clean break".
>
> Cheers
> Rachel
>
>
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>>
>> Nicole C. Engard
>> Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
>> (888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
>> nce at liblime.com
>> AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard
>>
>> http://liblime.com
>> http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Henry Lam <henry at silas.org.sg> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I fully agree with the idea.  There should be three lists.
>>>
>>> Henry
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Beda Szukics <beda at muri-gries.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Paul
>>>>
>>>> Paul Landers schrieb:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Nicole.
>>>>>
>>>>> I vote *not* to combine installation/tech support with developer.
>>>>> What about 3 lists: dev, install/tech support and usage?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I second your idea of having three lists, but we have to make shure
>>>> everybody knows what list he/she has to choose for the question to ask.
>>>>
>>>> Beda
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