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

[Yamil Suarez]

I am OK with the deletion of the "evergreen-admin". Part of my reason
is that it is not getting as much use as I would have expected. Before
this "evergreen-admin" list existed and while I was a new to the EG
community, I was often not sure if I should post my sysadmin questions
in the general or the developer list, or both. If we do eliminate the
"evergreen-admin," I would love to see a word or two added to the list
descriptions to make it more clear where sysadmin question would be
most welcomed.


Currently the descriptions are....

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General Mailing List

Evergreen General Discussion List

This is the general-topic, (usually) non-technical list for the
Evergreen community — Evergreen users, librarians, library workers,
library users, developers, fellow travelers, or people just plain
curious about Evergreen. As of October, 2008, this list had over 500
members. Its traffic is moderate.

General means general. Posts range from discussions about possible new
features to quick questions about implementation. There is no such
thing as a “dumb” question or comment for the Evergreen general list.
If you’re thinking the question, chances are, you’re in good company.
Ask, and you give other members of the Evergreen community an
opportunity to share their growing knowledge.



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Technical Lists

Evergreen Development Discussion List

This list is for patches and technical discussions about Evergreen and
OpenSRF development. Messages and responses are often in the shorthand
common to this culture.


Just my two cents,
Yamil


On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Michael Peters <mpeters at emeralddata.net> wrote:
> Just my 2 cents, but I've always felt IRC was the best place to reach other
> sys-admins for advice.  I can't recall ever posting to the mailing list
> about a system administration issue.  I know there are so many active
> sys-admins on the IRC that I think the response is likely to be quicker
> there.
>
> I'm also more apt to answer a question I see in IRC.  I'm not sure I'm even
> subscribed to anything other than Dev and General.
>
> Michael Peters
> Senior Systems Analyst
> Emerald Data Networks, Inc.
> Phone: 678.302.3000 x1013
> Help Desk: 678.302.3000 x1500
> www.emeralddata.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
> [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of
> Galen Charlton
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:43 PM
> To: Evergreen Discussion Group
> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Motion to deactivate the "evergreen-admin"
> mailing list
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Chris Sharp <csharp at georgialibraries.org>
> wrote:
>> 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. ;-)
>
> 0.
>
> A dedicated list for Evergreen sysadmins could work in principle, but of
> course requires that folks actually answer questions posted to it.
> Since the list was created, there's been long periods where it has been
> mostly ignored, either passively or actively, and I think it long ago
> reached the point where reluctance to use it has self-fulfilled a prophecy
> that it would not be used.
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
> --
> Galen Charlton
> Manager of Implementation
> Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
> email:  gmc at esilibrary.com
> direct: +1 770-709-5581
> cell:   +1 404-984-4366
> skype:  gmcharlt
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> Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org &
> http://evergreen-ils.org



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Yamil Suarez, MCS
Library System Administrator/Developer

Stan Getz Library
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02215

ysuarez at berklee.edu
617-747-2617