[ImageJ-devel] [fiji-devel] Re: Mailing list for ImgLib?

[Albert Cardona]

2012/6/1 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin at gmx.de>:
> Hi Curtis,
>
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2012, Curtis Rueden wrote:
>
>> There has been an increasing amount of discussion of ImgLib lately,
>> which is great. However, the discussions have been spread across
>> fiji-devel, imagej-devel and private mails. I noticed people have been
>> adding an "[imglib]" or similar prefix to some mails, but not others.
>>
>> Would people prefer a dedicated imglib-devel mailing list? It would be
>> easy to create one. It could live on imagej.net
>> (imglib-devel at imagej.net), or on Google Groups like fiji-devel does, or
>> even imglib-devel at imglib2.net if the owner of that domain is willing to
>> add an MX entry to imagej.net, similar to fiji.sc now (run "host
>> fiji.sc" from the console to see what I mean).
>>
>> I think a dedicated mailing list would be good as people are
>> increasingly using ImgLib2 in non-ImageJ contexts.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Heh. I just sent a mail to fiji-users and imagej in the opposite
> direction.
>
> I often see that discussions fail to reach the target audience because we
> have too many mailing lists, not too few. Also, quite a few people get
> dropped from discussions because the "Reply-to-all" button is too hard to
> find.
>
> So I'd suggest not to split the lists even further.
>
> But I am pragmatic about it, if you really want to have another mailing
> list, go for it. I'd suggest to use our own mail server. Google Groups
> sound nice but have so many shortcomings and nobody fixing them.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho


I second Johannes. No benefits from splitting the mailing lists.

Albert


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