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

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi everyone,

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


Fair enough. Do you have a preference on "best practice" when discussing
ImgLib issues then? Use fiji-devel? Use imagej-devel? Always cross-post?
Other?

-Curtis


On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Albert Cardona <sapristi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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