Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Is there a discussion-only list

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:25, Paul Dragoonis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> wiki accounts, karma requests, svn commits are really only directed at
> people who are involved in the development of php stuff.
> for the rest its general discussion we could have php-webmaster to
> continue with the discussions and take the system messages off to a
> new mailing list such as php-notifications or something like that.
>
> The percentage of people interested in the commits.etc is going to be
> much less than the people interested in discussions so only a small
> amount of people involved in development would need to signup for the
> new list.
>
> Usually what happens is when you see a commit, you reply to it and
> start a conversation about it. I think if you want to start a
> discussion about a commit but if that turns into a debate with more
> than 2 people it should move to php-webmaster to get more peoples
> opinions on it.
>
> Just my thoughts on the above points raised.

    I agree with separating the discussions and system messages, but
want to see it done differently than suggested so far.  Historically,
we've always used the webmaster@ and php-webmaster@ addresses (and the
correlating list) for system messages (CVS/SVN commits, site bug
reports, event and calendar submissions, et cetera), as well as a
first point of contact for anything related to the php.net website.
I'd not only like to see it stay that way, but also revert the change
for events, so that they'll be emailed in real-time like they always
had been (but that's not entirely relevant to this discussion).

    In order to really keep this separate, what about the creation of
a list specifically related to the tasks at hand, such as ui@ or
site-ui@?  There are a variety of pragmatic options, I just don't
believe that shifting things entirely and rededicating this list is
one of them.  That, and, it's a hell of a lot less work to move new
discussions to a new list and just have everyone subscribe there.

-- 
</Daniel P. Brown>
Network Infrastructure Manager
Documentation, Webmaster Teams
http://www.php.net/