[Dspace-general] [Dspace-tech] Question one: What's working and what isn't?

[Mark Diggory]

On Aug 18, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Dorothea Salo wrote:

> Housekeeping:
>
> - Please respond to the dspace-general list, or to me directly.
> DSpace-tech has a 1.5.1 beta to talk about, and I don't want to derail
> that very important conversation!

Release discussions generally occur on dspace-devel and dspace-commit  
lists (though infrequently). I would recommend not separating the IR  
Manager user group out of the user community.

I've been generally dissatisfied with the breakup of the community  
over the lists of dspace-general at mit, dspace-tech at sf and dspace- 
devel at sf.  I've recommended in the past, a consolidation of or  
restructuring of this list setup.  By breaking off even more avenues  
for discussion, it creates an even great state of chaos and localized  
discussion that is difficult to keep track of.

In the past I recommended moving dspace-general to the SF site to  
assure that its is clearly identified with the DSpace foundation and  
community rather than MIT Libraries.

In the past I've also recommened renaming the lists to clarify the  
standard defacto OS listserv roles that they should be playing in the  
community

dspace-general at mit -->  consolidate into below
dspace-tech at sf          -->  dspace-user at sf (or possibly dspace- 
community)
dspace-devel at sf       -->   dspace-devel at sf
dspace-commit at sf    -->   dspace-admin at sf

I also recommend an additional read only list.

dspace-announce at sf

For which folks only interested in official dspace foundation/ 
community announcements and not other discussions happening above.

I am concerned that the spawning off of new discussion/chat/email  
lists is undermining the communities ability to maintain a  
centralized and clearly transparent mechanism for communication.

-Mark


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Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Developer and Systems Manager
MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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