[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Should we have a systems administrators list?

[Tim Spindler]

I agree with Lori.  I think she hit the nail on the head.

Tim

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre at galecia.com>wrote:

> I'm neither a +1 nor a -1 on this topic.  What I would like to say
> relative to this topic, however, is that I hope people will step out on a
> limb and put their questions and comments out there one way or another.  At
> the conference, I heard from many people that they were reluctant about
> posting for one reason or another.  Generally these ideas revolved around
> insecurity of some kind.
>
> I can imagine a lot of overlaps between issues related to development and
> sysadmin and if everyone is really okay with all things technical, it seems
> better to keep all the useful info that will pass through the list in one
> place.  I want the devs to know if there is something that the sysadmins
> are struggling with...for example.  And often a developer will have the key
> to a problem that a sysadmin is facing.  So I guess I'm leaning more to the
> Ben camp on this.
>
> I would like to encourage us all to do a better job of encouraging
> everyone to use the mailing lists and be very careful about the way we
> interact with each other.  I'd like us to develop a Code of Conduct...I
> believe Jono suggested such a thing and it started with something along the
> lines of 1. Don't be a jerk.  Perhaps we could flesh that out!  I'm
> thinking we could modify our Communications Guidelines with our Code of
> Conduct, if we could develop one.  We'll also update it with info about our
> new lists and perhaps add some language to encourage everyone to use them
> more freely.
>
> Lori
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> On 5/1/2012 12:29 PM, Jason Etheridge wrote:
>>
>>> But, as was said in IRC today, whatever gets folks talking and sharing...
>>>
>>
>> And I'm consequently a mild +1 for the original proposal.
>>
>> There is nothing in open-ils-dev's remit that should forbid or discourage
>> discussion of any technical topic, including system administration.
>>  Nonetheless, if there is active interest in a new forum, I would rather
>> that we let it run as a mindful experiment under the Evergreen banner
>> rather than risk the discussion not happening at all or taking place
>> elsewhere.  If a sysadmin list gets little traffic, it is easy enough to
>> close it, just as it would be easy to create it in the first place.  If it
>> seems to be wandering into the wheat fields (the land of silos, natch), we
>> can work together to draw it back into the fold.
>>
>> However, I would like to riff off a comment that Dan Scott made on IRC
>> earlier today: if a sysadmin list gets created but folks start "answering"
>> questions with the response "You're on the wrong list!  Go away!", I would
>> immediately move to collapse *all* Evergreen project into open-ils-general.
>> ;)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Galen
>> --
>> Galen Charlton
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>>
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>>
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>>
>
>


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