[wplug-internet] Why does this list exist?

[John Lewis]

The wplug-market and wplug-jobs lists make sense to me.

What doesn't make since is that we have as many lists as we do committee
members.

So you are saying Mark is that wplug-internet was a ticketing system for
changes to the servers. Wouldn't you agree that it would be better to
have a real ticketing system.

The wplug-internet could still be used to send all of the tickets and it
would make since to have a separate list for this. Other than that I see
no need for two different list for planing things for WPLUG. All it does
is increase intellectual overhead and lower participation. We can't run
WPLUG like healthcare.gov and expect people to want to participate.

By the way Mark, are you on the voter roles? If not come to the next
meeting and I'll see if I can make an arrangement for you get get back
on them.

I hope I am not going too far of subject, but what committees are in
charge of wplug-market and wplug-jobs?

On 12/09/2014 08:50 AM, Mark Dalrymple wrote:
> wplug-internet was created so that folks who are administering and
> maintaining the various internet servers could communicate.  The list more
> active in the past as we were migrating from the older openACS system to
> wikimedia, as well as discussions over which virtual host system to adopt,
> and coordinating with MarkDude's LDP mirror.
> 
> For now things are running pretty nicely, so the main traffic on
> wplug-internet is occasional "hey, these packages need updating".  Messages
> that could easily get lost on the main list, or devolve into kibbitzing.
>  "Hey, you really should adopt rails on node!  I won't actually help you
> out with it, but I'll tirelessly expound on its virtues".
> 
> The idea is that different people have different interests.  Some want to
> see the technology run.  Hence this list.  Some folks love to plan and
> organize, but may not have a huge interest in the latest Slackware vs SuSE
> distribution. (hence wplug-plan). Some folks just want to talk Linux (hence
> the general list).  For awhile we were getting a *lot* of for-sale
> postings, hence wplug-market.  Outside of the lack of description for this
> list, they all seem pretty straightforward.  Not interested in jobs?  Don't
> subscribe to the jobs list.
> 
> Cheers,
> ++md
> 
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