Wolfgang Rosenauer
Hi,
Jan Matejek schrieb:
We need to separate people into smaller groups that are able to efficiently communicate and cooperate. Groups that can concentrate on specific tasks - lovely as it may sound, "building the best distro" isn't a specific task.
Actually I pretty much agree. I have a hard time to choose the right mailinglist for some stuff sometimes.
And just recently I've thought about how to get people working on mozilla stuff together. I think there aren't many (yet) but I still have hope we can find at least some. Back when I was at Novell we had a mozilla-team mailinglist for 3 or 4 people and I think that's still very useful.
I would like to have such a mozilla team list again which consist of community and Novell people working with or interested in Mozilla's codebase. Does it cause some overhead? Yes, but what's the cost? Will it help bringing people together in a smaller group to work together? I really think so.
Hmmm.... we have a signal / noise ratio problem, i.e. as a list subscriber, how do you separate signal from noise. On the other hand, a high volume list gives access of many eyeballs to a problem. For example, to me, long threads indicate interesting topics. For this reason, I believe adding more and more lists is _not_ solving this problem appropriately: adding lists raises the "wrong list here! go there!" noise. adding lists also kills incidential signals being found. It kills the "to enough eyeballs, any problem is shallow" power of open source; adding lists will make it much less probable to accidentially stumble accross something usefull or to accidentially stumble accross a significant discussion or topic. How about a simple marker [pkg:foofoo] if it's package related? Or [pack:foofoo] something. And then you use the scoring and ranking fatures of Your Favourite Mailer to separate the signal from the noise? And a wiki page could explain how to set this filtering up for, say, emacs gnus, kmail, evolution and mutt, to help newcomers aboard? e.g. http://gnuisance.net/blog/howto-mutt-scoring/ I'd rather prefer to have these issues on o-factory@o.o instead of yet another mailing list. Sometimes they *are* interesting to me. And most of the time I just lower the score for threads. 'delete and lower score for this thread ($SUBJECT)' is a handy function here... S. -- Susanne Oberhauser +49-911-74053-574 SUSE -- a Novell Business OPS Engineering Maxfeldstraße 5 Processes and Infrastructure Nürnberg SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org