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

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--- On Mon, 7/21/08, Nicole Engard <nicole.engard at liblime.com> wrote:

> From: Nicole Engard <nicole.engard at liblime.com>
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Purpose of this list? - Adding more lists?
> To: "Rachel Hamilton-Williams" <rachel at katipo.co.nz>
> Cc: Koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 7:40 AM
> > 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.

I agree. I think the developers on the list could self moderate and if people start asking questions more appropriate for another list, send them in that direction. 

Edward

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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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