[Rubyinstaller-devel] Making it Easy To Contribute

[Gordon Thiesfeld]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Luis Lavena<luislavena at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/8 Matt Hulse <matt.hulse at gmail.com>:
>>> I'm for Google Groups, and would be happy to get the ball rolling
>>> there.  It would definitely be more accessible to newcomers (easier to
>>> find, sign up, and search).
>>
>> Gordon,
>> I see that you've got a full plate so I was going to go ahead and get the
>> google group setup but rubyinstaller appears to be taken.
>
> Go figure, who on earth will do that???
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller
>
> Me! :-P
>
>> Have you already
>> started on that group?  If not, what would you prefer for a group name?
>>  rubyinstaller-dev is available.  I'll make you an owner once the group is
>> setup.
>>
>
> RubyInstaller it is, no need for an aditional dev list.
>
> For the time being I'm keeping both -users, -dev and groups active,
> but sooner than later we would have to decide and disable the others.
>

I've looked into turning off the rubyforge mailing lists.  We can mark
them private for a while, and no new folks will be able to sign up for
them.  We can send emails out to those lists saying to switch to
google groups for a month or so, then delete them.