Mailing List Archive: RE: [Xen-users] Xen.org Blog Available

> Xen.org Community:
>
> To further community interaction beyond our existing mailing lists, I
have
> launched a new Xen.org Blog site at http://67.207.140.65/ (soon to be
> http://blog.xen.org <http://blog.xen.org/> ). The blog site is open to
any
> community member wishing to discuss any Xen related concept or issue.
> Please keep all blog posts about the Xen hypervisor and related
technology
> and remember this is not a marketing or sales tool to promote your Xen
> solution. I look forward to reading the variety of topics posted on
Xen.

My concern with this is that the mailing lists are currently the place
do hold discussions on Xen related stuff... does this mean developers
need to monitor additional discussion areas too? Email has many
advantages over web sites for holding discussions.

Maybe I'm the only one with this opinion... if so I'll speak no further
:)

Can you please elaborate on the need you see the blog site filling, and
when it would be more appropriate to discuss something on a blog vs on
the mailing list?

James

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> My concern with this is that the mailing lists are currently the place
> do hold discussions on Xen related stuff... does this mean developers
> need to monitor additional discussion areas too? Email has many
> advantages over web sites for holding discussions.
>
> Maybe I'm the only one with this opinion... if so I'll speak no further
>
> :)
>
> Can you please elaborate on the need you see the blog site filling, and
> when it would be more appropriate to discuss something on a blog vs on
> the mailing list?

It's my feeling that the blog could be useful to increase visibility of what
developers are doing, so that interested parties could see at-a-glance what
sort of stuff is going on in "Xen Land".

I think that for developer discussions or user support the mailing lists are
the most appropriate medium. The blog could be good for eg. saying "hey, I'm
working on this cool thing" or "new release of blah" in high signal-to-noise
way for interested parties to read over the web or via RSS.

I'm thinking I may use my blog to occasionally write little bits of progress
report on cool things I'm working on or ideas I've had. If anything takes
form sufficiently in concept or implementation to be worth discussing widely
then I'd post on the mailing list.

Cheers,
Mark

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