I just did some investigations last weekend, and found what it could be
hard to figure out even current mailing list addresses. Never
contain references to proper mailing
lists. Ed blog seems the only place that mentions jsr-314-comments. JSR
page points to jsr-314-public forum with only Dan's message that was
posted on Aug 03.
On 09/23/2009 11:24 AM, Roger Kitain wrote:
Andy Schwartz wrote:
> Hey Roger -
>
> Thanks for your efforts in tracking this down.
>
> Roger Kitain wrote:
>> They also said that the older jsr-314-open messages could be injected
>> into this forum so we
>> would not lose anything.
>
> That's great news!
>
>>
>> I'm still awaiting specific
>> details about the new process and what we need to do to rectify the
>> situation, but it may mean
>> we change from jsr-314-open to jsr-314-public. I will let you know as
>> soon as I find out more.
>
> Taking a look at the following info from the jcp site:
>
>
http://jcp.org/en/introduction/intro#boards
>
> We have access to a 3 discussion boards:
>
>> * jsr-xxx-public: this is a board to which any registered user can
>> post. Some Expert Groups may choose to use these boards for their
>> primary communication on the JSR's development. As an alternative to
>> viewing the long list of all boards, you can also get to a given
>> JSR's public board by clicking the "jsr-xxx-public" link on the
JSR's
>> summary page.
>> * jsr-xxx-observers: this is a board to which any registered user may
>> request to be added, to which the JSR's Spec Lead and experts are
>> automatically subscribed. Some Expert Groups may choose to use these
>> boards for their primary communication on the JSR's development,
>> while still others may use it as a mechanism for providing updates to
>> the particularly interested members of the community. To request to
>> be added to a JSR's observer board, use the Observers board request
>> form to ask to be added to the board.
>> * jsr-xxx-eg: this is a board that is private to the Specification
>> Lead(s) and Expert Group members for that JSR. Some Expert Groups may
>> choose to use these boards for their primary communication on the
>> JSR's development, using the others as mechanisms for community updates.
>
> Seems like we would want to perform the following mapping
>
> jsr-314-comments is replaced by jsr-314-public.
> jsr-314-open is replaced by jsr-314-observers.
> jsr-314-eg stays the same (which is not really in use at this point).
Yes, based on that information that mapping appears to be what we could
use.
>
> Note that there is some degree of email support available:
>
>> Using the boards via e-mail
>> Many Expert Groups wish to conduct their communications primarily
>> through e-mail. Both the observers and EG-private boards also
>> generate e-mail messages. This allows the people using those boards
>> to choose to use either the board's web interface, or just to
>> interact with the board via e-mail, where it functions like a
>> standard mailing list, or some combination of the two. For instance,
>> if you are on the Expert Group for JSR 500, you could send mail to
>> jsr-500-eg(a)jcp.org. This message would be distributed to everyone
>> else on the Expert Group via e-mail, as well as being entered in the
>> discussion board for future reference.
>
> But apparently no email love for jsr-314-public. Roger - any chance
> you could raise this limitation with your jcp contact? Ideally we
> would like email access to the public forum.
Yes. That certainly does appear to be n unfortunate limitation. Let's
see what we can do about it.
>
> Andy
>