<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Lincoln Baxter III <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lincolnbaxter@gmail.com">lincolnbaxter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 08ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I'm fine with explaining that it's there for voiced opinions, but tell me again, is this something that will be resolved and synced to a mailing list once we get all of that sorted out?<br></div></blockquote><div>
<br>I'm not quite sure what you are asking. Could you clarify the question? Sorry, maybe just too much egg nog (wait, it was Ed that was drinking the egg nog).<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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What is the expectation we'd like to set? <br>
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#1 - I'm not sure. Should we just point them to the issue tracker? That would streamline the process, however limiting public visibility to the initial discussion, and I like discussion.<br></div></blockquote><div><br>
I think just like jsr-314-open, we vet the idea for a post or two on the forums before doing an issue report. We also do that with Seam and it seems to cut down the number of bogus issue requests.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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#2 - Sure.<br>
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Any others?<br>
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<br></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote></div>The key is really to give them a place they can post and for them to know that the comment is posted to a place where it will "get to the right people". The main reason I advocate for this forum over <a href="http://java.net">java.net</a> or elsewhere is that posters are 100% sure who is checking those forums. There should be no mistake as to who reads the <a href="http://jcp.org">jcp.org</a> forums. Members of the JCP and EGs. They can put down their swords and start talking.<br>
<br>-Dan<br><br>-- <br>Dan Allen<br>Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action<br>Registered Linux User #231597<br><br><a href="http://mojavelinux.com">http://mojavelinux.com</a><br><a href="http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction">http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction</a><br>
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