Projects/OKFreview/OKF mailing lists

= OKF review issue 3 =

Most OKF projects have mailing lists associated with them. However it is not clear how information from a discussion on a mailing list should become part of the core of a project.

This could be resolved by ensuring that each project assigns responsibility for transferring key development in the mailing list into the core resources of the project. For example, the project manager or another specified team member should ensure that once a particular point raised in a mailing list becomes critical to the project, that the key details are transferred into project documentation.

The means by which this is achieved can be specific to each project, as long as the location of the information is discoverable via the project definitive list on the OKF site - a post on the listed blog, a page on the listed wiki, an entry in the listed project documentation.

For small projects, this may not be an issue at all; but for larger projects, it could quickly reach the stage where discussion on mailing lists becomes too large to follow, yet the information distributed within the list could be critical to the project.

To date, most mailing lists perform adequately, and are supported by notepads and documentation as required. The role of the OKF co-ord list is less clearly defined at present, as it is not about one specific project. Recently the co-ord list has seen an increase in traffic; it is becoming necessary to make the role of the co-ord mailing list, and the group itself, clearer.