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[Lars Kristian Roland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I did some analysis of the email messages on our dev and users lists (for
research purposes), not looking at the content, but at the number of
messages and number of people.

Since 2011, the number of 'listeners' to these lists have grown
tremendously, although the number of messages has remained quite constant
(I only counted messages sent from people, not machines so not counting
automated messages).

This leads me to believe that maybe we could have a discussion on how these
lists could work better. Could it be that there are many people out there
who maybe would like to ask questions but are afraid to do so because
several hundred people will get their email? For some type of questions,
would other formats be better? Stackexchange-like messaging? Forum-based
messaging? Jason has a good point with this. But different discussions have
different 'optimal' media...

Anyway, I'm jus throwing this into the discussion. To keep to the topic, I
think a sysadm list could be useful.

Best regards,
Lars



2014-10-09 13:34 GMT+02:00 Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Bob,
> I see the need, but am a bit concerned about establishing another mailing
> list. You can see from the dev list, that there are A LOT of non-dev topics
> already. Some of these are implementation issues, some end-user support,
> and a small smattering of Java jabberwocky. The dev list has sort of become
> the default mailing list for everything, and this is where people tend to
> go for support. The user list receives much less traffic, in spite of the
> fact that most of what is on the dev list is really not development
> related. While I think it is a good idea, there is inertia to overcome.
>
> Another idea which we have been contemplating is the establishment of a
> forum. This came out of the meeting in Oslo a few weeks back. I have been
> working with Lars Helge on this, but there is some more work which needs to
> be done before it would even be ready for testing. However,maybe a forum
> would be a better media for such discussions?
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Alex Tumwesigye <atumwesigye@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Brilliant idea.
>> Let's go for it.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Steven Uggowitzer recently raised the idea with me to create a system
>>> administrators list.  Aimed at backend sort of things relating to the
>>> operating system, security, database tuning, dhis2-tools, virtual machine
>>> images etc.
>>>
>>> Those geeky sort of things which are not about java development or about
>>> users as such, but all the stuff that needs to happen in between.
>>>
>>> I said I'd run it by our extended community and try and gauge interest.
>>> Please reply in this thread if you think its a good idea (or not).  If
>>> there is sufficient interest we can look at setting up.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Bob
>>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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Lars Kristian Roland
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