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

[Chris Sharp]

More detailed statistics on Evergreen-Admin list usage:

Over the last 12 months, we've had 35 posts from 10 distinct users.

There were 3 unanswered posts from users (who may have followed up on -Dev or -General - I haven't cross checked).

There have been 4 posts from 3 distinct users over the last 6 months, and at least one of those threads was cross-posted to -General.

My motion to deactivate the list is not intended to sabotage something that people find useful, but whatever the reasons, people really aren't using this list and the ones who do appear to be getting overlooked (to Kathy's points).  

If you read the IRC meeting log (referenced below), there was a great deal of interest in having a separate list, but most who participated in that meeting have not participated in Evergreen-Admin list discussions.  Is 2+ years not enough time to allow for growth?

Chris

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Sharp" <csharp at georgialibraries.org>
> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 4:02:23 PM
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Motion to deactivate the "evergreen-admin"	mailing list
> 
> 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/
> 

-- 
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/