[hibernate-dev] Forum changes proposal

[Steve Ebersole]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:43 AM Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>
wrote:

> On 10 December 2015 at 15:24, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
> > BTW, there is already a hibernate-users mailing list hosted on the JBoss
> > Mailman instance.  Back when we moved to JBoss Mailman they used to set
> up a
> > number of lists by default.  We just chose to not really use this one in
> > particular.  We could use this one for purpose discussed here.
>
> Yes, that would be nice. I'm registered on that list, and there have
> been questions already although they are extremely rare - I recall
> something like 3 a year? - probably because I don't think its
> existance was ever advertised.
>

Not sure.  Mailman is not great at showing "list statistics".  Actually it
kind of sucks as an archive (not searchable, segmented, etc).

http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/hibernate-users/


> BTW, I looked into creating a Hibernate SO Team.  Are we thinking one
> team?
> > Or one per project (ORM, OGM, etc)?
>
> Depends on how it works? I do monitor various tags, including
> "hibernate", "hibernate-search", "hibernate-ogm" and sometimes do a
> cross-check query like "hibernate" + "lucene", although others on our
> team often arrive first to answer.
>
> If the intent of the feature is to distribute the load among people to
> answer and monitor such tags, then I guess you're not interested in
> being notified for the Lucene related ones?
>
> From what I understand here:
>  -
> http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/307513/the-power-of-teams-a-proposed-expansion-of-stack-overflow
>
> It looks like it's more about showing off our affiliation, and to
> create a space were people can ask questions "about the team".
> So I'd say a single team unless I misunderstood things.
>


That would be my vote as well: one team