[IAEP] [support-gang] Suggestion to close some mailing lists

[Chris Leonard]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Christoph Derndorfer

> Briefly looking through your analysis and the lists I agree on most counts.
>
> The one area where I'd probably be more lenient than you is allowing
> local-/country-lists which are half-decently active to exist separately
> and not be merged into grassroots@ or olpc-sur@ (examples here are most
> of the South American country lists).
>
>
Just to be clear, my suggestions to merge some of the country-specific
lists  was not based on a judgement that they did not "deserve" their own
list.  Rather, it was based on the notion that they share similar challenges
(especially those in start-up mode) and they would benefit from "hanging
out" on a list where others were facing similar issues.  Peru and Uruguay
efforts have matured to the point where they are facing unique challenges in
their deployments and coordinating efforts that they don't want to "bother"
others with, and so I did not recommend merging them.

We have over 100 languages/dialects represented on the Pootle server and we
handle all communication via the single Localization list.  This provides
great benefit where a Japanese localizer will answer a question posed by a
localizer of an African language and vice versa.

That said, I posted my recommendations as a strawman to move the discussion
forward to more specifics and do not feel I have the right to make any
merge/drop calls on behalf of the lists involved.  I firmly believe their
feedback must be solicited before any action is taken, but my calls were
based on the idea of doing something "for" them, not "to" them.

The delicate balance is where joining a more general list would be
discouraging because of the volume of non-specific discussion versus having
a specific list that doesn't quite reach critical mass of activity.. It is
not an easy determination to make.

cjl
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