Re: What mailing lists should we be using?

David,

We generally get far more messages posted to Sword-devel than the other CrossWire lists to which I'm subscribed. e.g. Traffic to mobile-devel is miniscule.

Please be aware that all content on Sword-devel is also publically available to users with accounts on some mirrors such as Nabble.  In fact I use nabble to participate, rather than fill my email client on my PC, or even one of my webmail accounts, such as google.

http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/

This method is somewhat deprecated by a few CrossWire users. Some messages may not get accepted, and you'd never know.

The important point is not to include any information which could risk the personal safety of participants or other contacts who might live within a "persecuted country". That advice should be followed, even without the existence of such mirrors. You don't know all the other partcipants in the list, so you cannot assume every user is worthy of our trust on matters which should remain confidential.

There is a separate mailing list for matters that should remain private. Ask Troy for details.
e.g. Don't use Sword-devel to touch subjects relating to potential breach of text copyrights.

David

On 23 April 2010 13:59, David Instone-Brewer <Technical@tyndale.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

Dear Chris (& David & Troy)

It occurred to me that I need to think about where email goes.
What kind of emails should I send to the various lists?

J-Sword Developers Mailing List <jsword-devel@crosswire.org>, 
SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
TyndaleSTEP.Prog@Blogger.com
etc

I'm thinking that the work on the Translation module is fairly separate (and very technical),
so that email list may as well stay separate,
and there's not much point in integrating the Publ list
(it is only one person, and he is mainly collecting copyright permissions),

But the Geog, Hist, and Prog ones might as well join the sword list?

The Geog and Hist modules are both at turning points.
Colin has rounded off the History stuff nicely, and has just started a full-time job,
though he may come back and do more when he's settled.
David E is also about to start a new job and is busy preparing lectures,
having finished fixing the coordinates of the hi-res maps in the Geog module.

So this is a good time to move to new aspects of the project,
and a good time to change what we do with emails.

So...
Do you think we should address everything to jsword-devel@crosswire.org,
or sword-devel@crosswire.org, or both?
Is there standard wording we should include in the subject line so people can filter their mail?
(eg "[Tyndale STEP]")
What about non-programming topics like a logo or style considerations in UI?

Sorry about the stupid questions, but I've never worked within a large community before.

David IB

 

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