[ITK-users] [ITK] Community versus Users Lists

Matt McCormick matt.mccormick at kitware.com
Sat Apr 2 12:18:13 EDT 2016


Here is a draft of the poll:


https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19BL8Gbb3Z0qdekys2i6keHPZSdkSOgbRg84mWOhEu8U/viewform

Are there any suggestions on the wording? Missing options?

Thanks,
Matt

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Matt McCormick <matt.mccormick at kitware.com
> wrote:

> Doodle polls are usually for scheduling times only (as far as I am
> aware).  Perhaps a Google Form?
>
> M
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > since ITK is now in a mature phase, there is not a lot of traffic on
> > ITK-Developers. I suppose the best would be to completely transition to
> just
> > one list (community) which was created for that purpose. This would
> simplify
> > things.
> >
> > But having a poll sounds like a good idea. Did you mean something like a
> > Doodle poll, or somehow restrict the poll to just the members of the 3
> > mailing lists?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dženan
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Matt McCormick
> > <matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The current situation is not optimal, and it is difficult to keep all
> >> parties involved happy.
> >>
> >> - Some people do not want to be bothered to subscribe to more than one
> >> list, be it community, insight-users, or insight-developers.
> >> - Some people on insight-developers do not want to be auto-subscribed
> >> to a different list that has a different amount of traffic.
> >> - There are a number of non-mailman interfaces to the mailing lists
> >> that may not adapt to changes (Nabble, GMane, etc.), and some people
> >> use these interfaces exclusively.
> >>
> >> Any change will result in some unhappy campers, but some change may
> >> still be necessary to improve the status quo.
> >>
> >> Perhaps we should create a poll distributed to all lists to select a
> >> way forward? Other constructive ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Matt
> >>
> >> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Andras Lasso <lasso at queensu.ca>
> wrote:
> >> > I completely agree. Either a single community list or pair of
> >> > devel&users
> >> > makes sense.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > My personal experience: I've signed up to the community list when it
> was
> >> > created and unsubscribed from users. However, it was quite annoying
> that
> >> > I
> >> > received emails from users list but my responses were bounced. So, I
> had
> >> > to
> >> > sign up again to the users list. I still don’t know where to send new
> >> > posts:
> >> > users or community.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Andras
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > From: Michka Popoff
> >> > Sent: March 26, 2016 14:24
> >> > To: Matt McCormick
> >> > Cc: community at itk.org
> >> > Subject: Re: [ITK] Community versus Users Lists
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Hi
> >> >
> >> > one thought about this. If I remember well, (but I may be mistaken),
> >> > the community at itk.org address was introduced to replace the two
> others.
> >> >
> >> > Now, we have to follow 3 different mailing lists. The mail traffic is
> >> > okay
> >> > for me on
> >> > these 3 lists, so having only one would be great.
> >> > It would help people to know which one to use.
> >> >
> >> > Or we should go back to the old behaviour, with a user/developer list.
> >> > But I think developers want also to know what they users are doing,
> >> > so they are often registered on the two (/three) anyway.
> >> >
> >> > Michka
> >> >
> >> >> On 17 Mar 2016, at 16:42, Matt McCormick <matt.mccormick at kitware.com
> >
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi Toby,
> >> >>
> >> >> To post to the insight-users or insight-developers list, your email
> >> >> account currently needs to be subscribed there, too.
> >> >>
> >> >> Matt
> >> >>
> >> >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:47 AM, Wood, Tobias <tobias.wood at kcl.ac.uk
> >
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>> Hello,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Apologies for a newbie question but this has been bugging me for a
> >> >>> while.
> >> >>> I am subscribed to the community at itk.org mailing list. As noted on
> the
> >> >>> sign-up page, this also receives all the mail from insight-users
> (and
> >> >>> insight-developers). When I try to reply to a message from one of
> >> >>> these
> >> >>> lists in my mail client, the reply-to address is set to
> insight-users.
> >> >>> If I
> >> >>> send the message as is, I get a failure message telling me I am not
> >> >>> subscribed to the mailing list (which is correct).
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> How should I be responding to such e-mail threads? Will a reply to
> >> >>> community at itk.org forward the message on to insight-users? Or
> should I
> >> >>> be
> >> >>> subscribing to all 3 mailing lists (seems suboptimal as I assume I
> >> >>> will get
> >> >>> multiple copies of messages).
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Thanks,
> >> >>> Toby
> >> >>> _______________________________________________
> >> >>> Community mailing list
> >> >>> Community at itk.org
> >> >>> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/community
> >> >> _______________________________________________
> >> >> Community mailing list
> >> >> Community at itk.org
> >> >> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/community
> >> >
> >> > _______________________________________________
> >> > Community mailing list
> >> > Community at itk.org
> >> > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/community
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Community mailing list
> >> Community at itk.org
> >> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/community
> >
> >
>
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