[General] What is an osaf project?

[Ted Leung]

On Feb 3, 2006, at 5:30 PM, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:

> I think what I'm arguing here is that there be a unified community  
> around the product design for the user-facing projects. One design  
> list. One user list. Not every user will use the web application  
> and the hosting service and the gui client, but many will use  
> several and we want a consistent experience that makes sense.
>
> I think that implies that designers, users, and for the large part  
> testers and documenters will be interested in the suite of  
> projects, and it makes sense to foster one community around this.  
> Yes, this is different from how apache does it, but I think our  
> situation here is different.

I wasn't coming (consciously at  least) from  "this is the way apache  
does it", since the project-{user,dev} convention is used in a lot of  
places.   And I know that we would like to have unified community.    
But I don't know if our users will want that.   I do know that people  
don't like to get more e-mail than necessary.   I can easily imagine  
that there are people who only use one of Chandler or Scooby who will  
be annoyed to get (lots) of e-mail about the project/product that  
they don't use.   We can certainly start with a single user list, but  
if we are moderately successful, there's going to be a huge amount of  
traffic.

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