From bluesky-dev-return-241-apmail-incubator-bluesky-dev-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Tue Sep 09 11:14:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-bluesky-dev-archive@locus.apache.org Received: (qmail 43789 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2008 11:14:35 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 9 Sep 2008 11:14:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 89258 invoked by uid 500); 9 Sep 2008 11:14:33 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-bluesky-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 89244 invoked by uid 500); 9 Sep 2008 11:14:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact bluesky-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: bluesky-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list bluesky-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 89233 invoked by uid 99); 9 Sep 2008 11:14:33 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:14:33 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.0 required=10.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of lovesummerf@gmail.com designates 209.85.142.191 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.142.191] (HELO ti-out-0910.google.com) (209.85.142.191) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:13:32 +0000 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w7so1148974tib.6 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:13:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=OlBOwAr/RJOPWHwnYWjyUqDPIKn34eL6HhDflI5nvlU=; b=dQlAO/kKrFg7ltngNJ4zNaqYaEGMpZ0oJTlFFwXnJyPMnHuvG9vcKwJ39Tr+G1wssZ MHoHtbcAepy9OrwxrMLzgvBvPraR36NncDSxiBoa96KaZnLjl7ayZtjxLv42M6VDP2dn vrh7v33enit0P9dy/2YETEqWSk+HPSHX9Oh7c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=l7/ZxvVj9b229lyDp8IUk3pAYybRR1TS1JDjW7/h4xqo+C1Xv1Zp0tHdS4HT+HeMlW eFYMMXbwtOyl6gZoOxhaRKmL1SF4vyeWLaFvEFR3TfvQBbcuIH32IAUdGw1TIKnVLD3r g0rQLsRziQcscJWK/P8VThHY5IgfL0f/P2m74= Received: by 10.110.70.17 with SMTP id s17mr19793982tia.5.1220958826097; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.110.90.4 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 04:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6ec21e960809090413q388f80fao458000df367db926@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 19:13:46 +0800 From: "Samul Kevin" To: bluesky-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: to use mailing list correctly and effectively To Bluesky Dev Team @ XJTU MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_223332_5072552.1220958826094" X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org ------=_Part_223332_5072552.1220958826094 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline As we,bluesky dev-team @ XJTU, are not the native English users,thus,there are difficult in express us correctly.And most of us did't have the experience of subscribing to and using a mailing list.Under these two circumstances,mistakes,which we have already made a lot, are inevitable.They might be forgiven in a short time but the similary mistake can't recur.So I abstract the rules which I think we may violate to ensure every one @ bluesky dev-team could "truly deeply madly" make full use of the mailing list. The original mailing list guides is here: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html, since it's not very long , I do wish everyone could read it through. The following terms are extracted from the official guide: *Attention: *I will bold "quote" to signify that the following section is quoted from the guide article And bold "comment" to show my understanding on the terms *Quote:* The "Developer" lists where you can send questions and comments about the actual software source code and general "development" types of questions. *Comment*:It seems that we have broken this rule many times,hope that we could act more prefessinally. *Quote:* Ask smart questions.Every volunteer project obtains its strength from the people involved in it. You are welcome to join any of our mailing lists. You can choose to lurk, or actively participate; it's up to you. The level of community responsiveness to specific questions is generally directly proportional to the amount of effort you spend formulating your question. Eric Raymond and Rick Moen have even written an essay entitled "Asking Smart Questions" precisely on this topic. Although somewhat militant,it is definitely worth reading. Keep your email short and to the point; use a suitable subject line.If your email is more than about a page of text, chances are that it won't get read by very many people. It is much better to try to pack a lot of informative information (see above about asking smart questions) into as small of an email as possible. If you are replying to a previous email, it is a good idea to only quote the parts that you are replying to and to remove the unnecessary bits. This makes it easier for people to follow a thread as well as making the email archives easier to search and read. * Comment*:Though we are not native English users, we had to make our question clear so that people may have more interest to give you guide or discuss with you.A clear headline lures people check the post and a vivid depiction would whet their appetite to reply. Do pay attention to the length of your passage and try not to quote all the passage when you want to reply.All of these contribute to facilitate people to understand or browse. *Ps*:In order to ask wisely,we'd better read "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" through.. since the officical url I can't visit so I have this one replaced.Here is the the English version: http://blog.csdn.net/beyondyxj/archive/2004/10/28/156353.axpx And this the Chinese version: http://www.linuxforum.net/doc/smartq-grand.html *Quote:* Start a new thread for a new topicWhen asing a new question, please start a new thread with an appropriate new subject line. This makes it easier to read, and to find later in the archives. There is usually a setting that will allow you to send "Plain Text" email. Please don't send attachments or include large chunks of codeAttachments can be difficult to read and are rarely needed by all recipients. Some mailing lists are set up to drop them. If you need to send more than a few lines of code, ask first. Note that code is often mangled by word-wrapping, so it is better to provide a link to a downloadable file. If necessary, arrange with the person(s) responding to the posting how best to give access to the data, should it prove necessary. Watch where you are sending email.The majority of our mailing lists have set the Reply-To to go back to the list. That means that when you Reply to a message, it will go to the list and not to the original author directly. The reason is because it helps facilitate discussion on the list for everyone to benefit from. Be careful of this as sometimes you may intend to reply to a message directly to someone instead of the entire list. The appropriate contents of the Reply-To header is an age-old debate that should not be brought up on the mailing lists. You can examine opposing points of view condemning our convention and condoning it. Bringing this up for debate on a mailing list will add nothing new and is considered off-topic. * Comment*:As in the former post when we are talking about stlport,we should have start a new thread when it came to the license problem. Attachment is allowed in the post, neither a huge bulk of code, we may meet this problem when the source code is submitted to repository..And there is chance that you reply the letter to the author but not the mailing list or you send the mail which you fail to complete.I suggest that we edit our mail in an editor tool then copy the completed work to the mailing list. At last, i wanna ask something,should it be necessary to make a short conclusion after a consensus agreement is achieved about a topic as the end of the topic? -- Bowen Ma a.k.a Samul Kevin @ Bluesky Dev Team XJTU ------=_Part_223332_5072552.1220958826094--