Re: [Xen-API] Proposal to rename xen-api mailing list

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxx>]

On 17/06/2013 10:38, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> From experience, the mail filter problem is the worst one. It's 
> *really* annoying when a mailing list I read occasionally changes its 
> name, and it all comes flooding through into my Inbox since I didn't 
> see the change notice in time (for instance, I only sample xen-devel 
> once a month or less). 
That can be avoided by sending a "direct" mail to all xen-api list users 
a week or two before the rename and then again just before (I can export 
who is signed up to the list)
> > > I would prefer a xapi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx list for now, where both 
> > > developer discussion and user
> > > enquiries are welcome (i.e. this list).
> > That would be a possibility, however the reality is that today most traffic on 
> > xen-api is user traffic, with the occasional developer question. Choosing 
> > xapi-general, was a reflection of this. My personal view is to have two lists, 
> > but Mike as project lead does not agree as he is worried that the developer 
> > list would be too quiet and thus would discourage new developers. This is a 
> > valid point.
> I think that the problem of a "too-quiet" developer list should be tackled 
> straight away.  Combining the mailing lists only solves the symptom.  There's clearly a 
> lot of discussion about xapi that happens off-list or internally to Citrix, and that's 
> not appropriate for an open-source project that wants to attract fresh developers.
Agreed. I will let Mike respond to that. I have brought this up several 
times and opinion is not always consistent : I don't see any reasons why 
most of these off-list discussions cannot happen in public. However, I 
am not going to force anything on the project though. Ultimately, 
contributors will look at the devel list first. If nothing is going on 
on a list, they will not bother. There is a direct correlation between 
list traffic and a project's capability to attract developers (and users).
> A lot of developer mail traffic is usually generated by patchbombs that elicit 
> peer review.  This doesn't really apply to Xapi since most of the discussion 
> goes on in Github now.  One solution is to gateway Github comments into a mail 
> digest to have an archive of it on the developer list.  That's a convenient way 
> to get the discussion into our mail clients for easier search, etc.
Again one for Mike. Maybe the symtom is that developer discussions 
happen on Github. If that is true, we don't need a list which replicates 
the traffic, but nudge developers to use github. But to be honest, I 
don't believe that all discussions are happening there.
> Another way to generate discussion is to have a volunteer write up a monthly "xapi 
> review" that gets posted on the blog and mailing list.  See, for example, the 
> legendary Caml Weekly News that has been running for over a decade:
> http://alan.petitepomme.net/cwn/
Not sure this is the answer.

Regards
Lars

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