[rules-users] expert mailing list

[Mark Proctor]

On 16 Aug 2012, at 10:02, Geoffrey De Smet <ge0ffrey.spam at gmail.com> wrote:

> My thoughts:
> -1 to private: Keep it public - default to open :)
If it's public and open, all that will happen is noobs will send emails there, because they they think they will get better answers. Which will defeat the point.

I guess we can try open, and just move to moderation or something better later. But I'd prefer it if was something that could be community maintained. So it needs to be a service that can start open, but allow it to be switched later, if it is deemed necessary.
> -1 to invitations: they are hurdle (even if they can request it themselves)
> +1 to google groups. It's much easier for new people to join 
> (web/mail/newsgroup) than the complexity we got now with 
> nabble/mailing-list/gmane and less issues (not all nable's post are on 
> the mailing list, ...).
> +1 to split up the user lists per drools subproject (drools, guvnor, 
> planner). It would reduce and focus the volume of each list.
We can look into this for drools 6.0. Because the "guvnor" name, and what it is, will probably undergo an overhaul.
> -1 to split up the dev list or change it somehow for now
agreed, the dev lit stays as it is. It's purpose is well known, and we don't' have high volume yet.

Mark
> 
> Op 14-08-12 23:48, Mark Proctor schreef:
>> As the user list is now high volume, i'm contemplating an "invite only" expert list. I'm not sure who this would work, or if it's practical. But the idea is to have a lower volume list, with a higher quality of technical questions and discussions. This might make it easier for people to be engaged.
>> 
>> I'm thinking of doing it as a google group "drools-expert-group" or something.
>> 
>> I'm not entirely sure how to decide who gets an invite or not…. as it's very arbitrary. I guess in general anyone who gets a recommendation for someone on the list, gets an invite. But I'm open to other ideas to run this.
>> 
>> Ideally we should be able to setup a number of moderators, that can handle this invite list, including people from the community. Although not sure if google groups supports this, need to find out.
>> 
>> Anyway would like to here what people think, and would be interest to see alternative ways to do this. Maybe you can point to existing setups, that manage this sort of situation, that we can copy?
>> 
>> Mark
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> Geoffrey De Smet
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