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I initially thought a new list would be good for the HPC community and we created one.

However, we reviewed the HPC list during the summit with the representatives of the community. The traffic level is quite low and it was felt that we were actually missing out by requiring a positive decision to subscribe compared to accidentally finding out that there is this working group.

I would therefore be in favour of keeping the app tag for the moment unless there is a major increase in traffic.

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefano Maffulli [mailto:stefano at openstack.org]
> Sent: 10 June 2015 10:34
> To: user-committee at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [User-committee] [app] The Potential for an `App on OpenStack` ML
> 
> On 06/04/2015 01:02 AM, Tom Fifield wrote:
> > We've touched several times on the issue that "people building apps on
> > openstack have no place to hang out", and a couple of times it's been
> > posited that we should have a mailing list to service this purpose.
> 
> TL;DR I would suggest to make it when there is enough traffic and a team, with
> appropriate resources that requires the creation of a new list.
> 
> It's a hard call to make. Reading the etherpad, I see two main reasons for a new
> list:
> 
> 1) internal, focusing on the OpenStack project and teams; for things like
> discussions among the Application Ecosystem Working Group, user survey app
> dev section discussions, Summit track discussion etc
> 
> 2) external, facing the App Developers: Questions/Answers about developing
> apps on OpenStack, External SDK announcements,
> 
> And a couple of borderline topics, like Application Catalogue and openstack SDK
> Developers that may fit in either or both of the two.
> 
> I think that for the internal topics this User Committee list should be enough and
> the apps-related traffic would be good for building up the working group.
> 
> For #2, I would focus on high level strategy first: do we want to reach out to
> Apps developers where they are or do we want to have them come to us? I am
> in favor of them come to us and I don't think that a mailing list will be what
> would make them come.
> 
> I would focus on designing what experience we want to give to application
> developers first, and think of the tools later. In either cases, proper resources
> need to be allocated (and the Foundation is hiring for this, too).
> 
> /stef
> 
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