[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Motion to deactivate the "evergreen-admin" mailing list

[Jason Stephenson]

/me pretty much agrees with Alexey.

Quoting "Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich" <alexey.lazar at mnsu.edu>:

> -1.
>
> Using similar logic, the cataloguers, web team, reports, DIG and  
> even the dev list should also be eliminated. They are all  
> low-traffic and the general list serves as the all-purpose venue for  
> any of the content there, because “general" means anything and  
> everything.
>
> I suspect that low list membership and low traffic are somewhat of a  
> chicken-egg type issue where one leads to another and vice versa.
>
> My counter-recommendation is to invite people to subscribe to all  
> topical lists and when posting messages to first consider posting on  
> one of the sub lists and then if none fit the bill, use the general  
> list.
>
> In theory, this should lead to a cleaner separation of posts by  
> topic, where the general list is used more for general announcements  
> - future development proposals, future functionality discussion, new  
> releases, event and community announcements - general topics, while  
> more of the specific user and technical discussion is done using the  
> topical lists.
>
> On 2015-01-13, at 15:02 , Chris Sharp <csharp at georgialibraries.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I administer or co-administer all of the open-ils/evergreen mailing  
>> lists, and I would like to make a motion that we deactivate the  
>> Evergreen-Admin mailing list.  It is a very low-traffic list (maybe  
>> a dozen monthly posts at its busiest) with low membership (75  
>> members), and most of the questions asked there would be  
>> appropriate for Open-ILS-General.  The list became active in  
>> September 2012 in response to an IRC discussion  
>> (http://evergreen-ils.org/irc_logs/evergreen/2012-05/%23evergreen.18-Fri-2012.log) where the majority of attendees wanted a dedicated system administration mailing  
>> list.
>>
>> In my view, the Evergreen-Admin list duplicates the purpose of  
>> this, the General list, in that the General list serves as an  
>> all-purpose venue for (non-development related) technical help in  
>> running Evergreen.  If you agree, please +1, otherwise, please  
>> state your case for keeping it. ;-)
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> --
>> Chris Sharp
>> PINES System Administrator
>> Georgia Public Library Service
>> 1800 Century Place, Suite 150
>> Atlanta, Georgia 30345
>> (404) 235-7147
>> csharp at georgialibraries.org
>> http://pines.georgialibraries.org/
>
> Aleksey Lazar
> IS Developer and Integrator - PALS
> http://www.mnpals.org/


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