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Subject: Migration of user community to OASIS lists
With the establishment of DITA 1.0 as an OASIS standard, the administration at OASIS will prepare new mailing lists for DITA. Typically, the dita-dev domain would serve to host the same kind of activity as what we have presently in the Yahoo! dita-users list. We need to think about how to migrate our current Yahoo list members over to the chosen OASIS list. Advantages of the OASIS list: * permanence of the material * generally better server reliability * isolation from spam. Some users say they will not use Yahoo! because of that tool's vulnerability to generating spam lists. * shepherding of discussions within the body that also hosts the Standard * close relationship with related materials * follows the same example as other OASIS standards and their communities Issues with moving the list: * breaking all the existing URLs to the Yahoo! dita-users community. Mitigation: This is a bona fide headache. We will leave a posting about the relocation of the activity, but all those published Yahoo! URLs will take time to change over. * some won't know to make the change. Many of the subscribers there are "read-only" subscribers--they elect not to receive email of any sort. Mitigation: Leave a posting about the relocation of the activity. * loss of some collaborative facilities, particularly posting documents and files. Mitigation: we can still use the Yahoo list's files facility for now; move to OASIS facilities once they become available. * loss of profiles for users. Mitigation: is this really a problem? Personally, the administration takes a lot of my time--I can let this go. * other? Let's have some discussion about pros and cons (and mitigation ideas), and then look at when to start preparing the list users for a move. Regards, -- Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com> Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee IBM Lead DITA Architect 11501 Burnet Rd., MS 9037D018, Austin TX 78758 Ph. 512-838-8550 (T/L 678-8550) "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" --T.S. Eliot
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