Hi everyone,
If you're like me, you struggle to keep up with GDO, and you often miss conversations on IRC due to timezone differences.
Good news: the Aegir Project now have mailing lists for those of you who prefer it!
Visit the list of mailing lists at http://lists.aegirproject.org.
We've a general 'aegir' list for support, discussion and announcements, as well as an 'aegir-dev' list for the core dev team and those of you digging under the hood or extending the system.
The 'aegir-announce' list is for the dev team to announce new releases of Aegir and perhaps events/news etc.
I've also added a French-language-specific mailing list out of pure bias; I'm open to adding others later if you can convince me there's a wide enough audience speaking in your language to warrant it :)
Let me know if you have any trouble with the lists.
Cheers,
Mig
Comments
Best place for a question/conversation?
I support whatever is best for you guys, but a few questions:
So is the 'aegir' list the preferred place for support questions? Better than opening a support ticket in the d.o. issue queues? If so, will google crawl the list archives so we have web access to all the good info?
Will 'aegir-announce' will be redundant with http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system/discussion?
I'll subscribe, but fwiw I keep up with http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system/discussion in a Thunderbird RSS feed which feels pretty similar to a mailing list. I can tag and archive posts. I can 'Mark all as read' on the feed. Granted replies to posts create some duplicates in he feed, but it works out.
Hey Brian, The mailing lists
Hey Brian,
The mailing lists at this stage are not a 'replacement' for anything, they are an alternative for those who want to use them.
The Issue Queues are still for support requests too. I just anticipate that not everyone's an enthusiast trawling the drupal queues, and there may be a bit more of 'me too, this is how i fixed it' community support on a mailing list and not just from the devs. We're not gonna enforce any rules like 'you can only ask for help on the mailing list' or anything like that, it's just another communication method for those that prefer it.
It may be that it doesn't get used that much. I hope to use aegir-dev more than anything else, to have long-term discussions with Adrian and Antoine that I can't maintain over IRC due to timezones, and expose more people to the development process / foster contrib development.
The archives are public and thus yes, crawlable by bots, anyone can read the archives without subscribing.
I also hope to get Antoine to set up commit hooks in git to send commit messages to aegir-dev
For now, the release notes announced on aegir-announce will be cross-posted to GDO. We anticipate a better community site hanging off aegirproject.org for this sort of thing in future too
I also use Reader for things like the commit logs atm, and I get mailed GDO posts. The one downside of RSS and of GDO is that you still have to come back to GDO to reply (unless there's a feature I've been missing all this time) :)
If it turns out to be a big flop of an idea, I'll blow it away - I have to pay for it after all :)
another channel? :)
Prefer g.d.o myself, but have subscribed in case some interesting discussion goes on there instead.