Probably a linked in private group can do the job, I dont know if it supports all the features that you mention but at least you have the contacts network to checks who joins and post new topics. With a group of moderators the topics can be restricted easily Sent from my iPhone On 14 Aug 2012, at 22:48, Mark Proctor <mproctor(a)codehaus.org&gt; wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > rules-users mailing list > rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users

From my side I am mostly interested in Planner so a

>From my point of view, the user list is becoming increasingly cluttered with Qs regarding Guvnor, which doesn't interest me at all. A parallel list guvnor-users(a)lists.jboss.org might help. -W On 15 August 2012 10:12, Michael Anstis <michael.anstis(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Personally, I don't find the user list "high volume". > > Perhaps re-categorizing the mailing lists we have works better:- > > - users: newbie type stuff > > > - dev (rename drools-tech?): technical questions (not just > implementation) > > My 2c. > > On 15 August 2012 00:33, Salaboy <salaboy(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> Probably a linked in private group can do the job, I dont know if it >> supports all the features that you mention but at least you have the >> contacts network to checks who joins and post new topics. With a group of >> moderators the topics can be restricted easily >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 14 Aug 2012, at 22:48, Mark Proctor <mproctor(a)codehaus.org&gt; wrote: >> >> > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > rules-users mailing list >> > rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org >> > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rules-users mailing list >> rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > rules-users mailing list > rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users > > _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users

My thoughts: -1 to private: Keep it public - default to open :)

-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.

-1 to split up the dev list or change it somehow for now

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 > _______________________________________________ > rules-users mailing list > rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users > -- With kind regards, Geoffrey De Smet _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users