Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Brian
<Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote:
In my opinion fragmentation of conversations onto
evermore mailing lists
discourages contribution.
I have to agree that I don't think the dump discussion traffic seemed
large enough to warrant a whole new mailing list.
If we find that doesn't work then we'll steer the conversation back to
wikitech.
But here is my reasoning
The admin list was meant to receive any and all automated mails from the
backup system and I didn't want to busy the readers of wikitech-l with
that noise. Previously there was a single recipient of any failures
which was not very scalable or transparent.
The discussion list was meant to capture consumers who have approached
me that are active users of the dumps but have no direct involvement
with mediaiwki and are not regular participants of this list. This runs
the list of researchers, search engines, etc .. that are not concerned
with all the other conversation that go on wikitech and simply want
updates on any changes within the dumps system .
--tomasz