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| <h1 id='aboutponymailanditscontributors'>About Pony Mail and its Contributors<a href='#aboutponymailanditscontributors' style='color: rgba(0,0,0,0);'>¶</a></h1> |
| <h3 id='background'>Background<a href='#background' style='color: rgba(0,0,0,0);'>¶</a></h3> |
| <p>Pony Mail began as a response to two things; the lack of diversity in |
| mailing list archives that are less bureaucratic all-or-nothing and more |
| fluid way to interact with mailing lists than what is typically offered, |
| and the lack of a performant system that solves this issue. Modern users |
| of software want to jump right into a discussion they see, but cannot |
| normally do so in a mailing list driven environment because of the rules |
| generally surrounding said environment. Pony Mail, along with a select |
| handful of newer archive systems, provides an interface that allows |
| people to just hop into a thread, and take part. Without the need to |
| subscribe, download the mbox archive, load it into your MTA, and |
| respond.</p> |
| <p><em>As Rich writes in a very short essay:</em></p> |
| <p><q>You see a thread in which someone is WRONG ON THE INTERNET! You need to |
| correct them. How do you do this today? You kinda don't. If you really |
| wanted, you could download mbox files (and who the hell knows where they |
| are?) and then try to get them into your mail client (which never works) |
| and then reply to it. Which will break threading, because you did |
| something wrong. Then you tear out your hair. PONY MAIL TO THE RESCUE!!! |
| (sound of hoof beats)</q></p> |
| <h3 id='rationale'>Rationale<a href='#rationale' style='color: rgba(0,0,0,0);'>¶</a></h3> |
| <p>One of the oft-heard complaints about Apache's development model is that |
| mailing lists are an old person's tool, and web-based communication - |
| forums - are the way to go in the 21st Century. Providing a |
| full-featured forum-like interface to mailing lists is one goal,while |
| keeping all of the enormous benefits that mailing lists already provide. |
| Asecond goal is to provide the ability to "jump in" to a mailing list |
| conversation - even one that was a while back, without the convolutions |
| that a mailing list requires. That is, to join this conversation the old |
| way, one would have had to subscribe to the mailing list, download an |
| mbox, and import it into ones mail client, in order that I be able to |
| reply to this message with correct threading. With Pony Mail, one has to |
| do none of those things, but can simply reply using the Web UI. To us, |
| this is a HUGE benefit for building community. The requirement to jump |
| through hoops to join a mailing list conversation drives away a lot of |
| people (at least, anecdotally, it does) and if we can remove that |
| barrier I think we'll have an easier time of drawing a new generation |
| into our projects.</p> |
| <h3 id='whoarewe'>Who are we?<a href='#whoarewe' style='color: rgba(0,0,0,0);'>¶</a></h3> |
| <p>We're a small bunch of people committed to making mailing list interaction as easy as possible.<br/> |
| Currently, we consist of (in alphabetical order):<br/> |
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| <li>Andrew Bayer / abayer - mentor</li> |
| <li>Daniel Gruno / humbedooh - committer</li> |
| <li>Francesco Chicchiriccò / ilgrosso - committer</li> |
| <li>Jim Jagielski / jimjag - committer</li> |
| <li>John D. Ament / johndament - mentor</li> |
| <li>Rich Bowen / rbowen - committer</li> |
| <li>Sam Ruby / rubys - committer</li> |
| <li>Sean B Palmer / sbp - committer</li> |
| <li>Shane Curcu / curcuru - committer</li> |
| <li>Tony Stevenson / pctony - committer</li> |
| <li>Ulises Cerviño Beresi / ucb - committer</li> |
| </ul></p> |
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| Apache Pony Mail (Incubating) is an effort undergoing incubation at |
| The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the <a href="https://incubator.apache.org"> |
| Apache Incubator</a>. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects |
| until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, |
| communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a |
| manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While |
| incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the |
| completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the |
| project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. |
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