[SAC] OSGeo archives at Nabble (Fwd: Re: Taking ownership)

[Jeff McKenna]

My earlier messages may not have been received, but here it goes again: 
I believe Nabble is used often, and I am offering my assistance to help 
maintain this.

-jeff



On 11-11-11 9:06 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:
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> El 11/11/11 13:24, Mateusz Łoskot escribió:
>> On 10 November 2011 05:27, Alex Mandel<alex at wildintellect.com>  wrote:
>>> On 11/02/2011 02:04 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Eli Adam<eadam at co.lincoln.or.us>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this waiting for more infrastructure migration or a SAC meeting?
>>>>>
>>>>> If not, with no discussion for a month, does the below mean that
>>>>> Mateusz should set the owner as info at osgeo.org and himself and
>>>>> others as admins?  From these threads,
>>>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2011-September/003319.html and
>>>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2011-October/003406.html, it
>>>>> sounds like at least Jeff and Jorge are interested as admins.
>>>>>
>>>>> Once we have a new owner and admins, perhaps the admins could close
>>>>> these tickets:
>>>>> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/813
>>>>> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/817
>>>>>
>>>>> It sounds like once SAC gives some guidance, Mateusz and Peter can
>>>>> coordinate to complete this work.
>>>>
>>>> Eli,
>>>>
>>>> I've been trying to stay out of this, leaving it to those with more
>>>> interest
>>>> though I suppose it might fall into the area of responsibility of the
>>>> mailman
>>>> admins (myself and Alan as I understand it).  I would prefer not using the
>>>> info at osgeo.org alias for nabble admin if it is intended to be handled by
>>>> others.  It is easy to set up a nabble at osgeo.org alias forwarding to
>>>> whoever
>>>> wants to be in charge.
>>>>
>>>> Ideally Alex as chair would facilitate a decision on this matter.
>>>
>>>
>>> I think it's best to have someone known to the community who is paying
>>> attention to nabble as the primary contact. It's easy enough if they get
>>> tired of it to pass it on.
>>>
>>> So yes, I'll propose that Mateusz should be the primary contact, and
>>> that Jeff and Jorge can be admins along with anyone else from SAC who
>>> would like to be.
>>> [...]
>>> Why don't we give everyone until next Monday(UTC) to voice support or
>>> opposition + alternatives to this.
>>
>> The Nabble thing issue is interesting.
>> I don't use it myself but I assumed it is important interface for many people
>> in the Community. So, I thought it would be good to help with it,
>> but it looks Nabble has not a high priority and perhaps it's too time consuming,
>> thus disturbing for other tasks. Now I'm not sure if it is worth the effort.
>>
>> Perhaps I should propose a survey in Discuss mailing list:
>> Is Nabble used at all?
>> Anyone interested in helping to maintain it?
>> etc.
>>
>> Cheers,
>
>
> I think it's worth, is my first entry point to search across several
> mailing list at once, to provide nice links to discussion and (at least
> at gvSIG mailing lists) is the way some users post as they prefer the
> "forum" look and feel.
>
> I'm still offering myself to give a hand at any responsibility level, so
> if Mateusz wants to step back and the committee agrees I can be the
> contact point and admin for it. If it's a lot of effort I will for sure
> come here to ask for help.
>
> Anyway the approach of having at least two points of contact is working
> well on the planet and as far as we use the alias email to notify every
> action, everyone on the team (Paolo Corti, Mateusz and me at least) are
> aware of pending tasks.
>
> Best
>
> - --
> Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
> http://es.osgeo.org
> http://jorgesanz.net
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