Berkeley DB XML mailing list transition

[George Feinberg-3]

All of the Sleepycat Software Berkeley DB support channels will move  
to Oracle support channels during the month of August.

This includes the Berkeley DB Java Edition, Berkeley DB XML and  
Berkeley DB High Availability product mailing lists.

The mailing lists are being moved to the Oracle Technical Network  
forums:

         http://forums.oracle.com/forums/category.jspa?categoryID=18

There are four technical forums at this site: one each for Berkeley  
DB, Berkeley DB High Availability, Berkeley DB XML and Berkeley DB  
Java Edition.  Please select the appropriate forum and post your  
question there.

The Berkeley DB support and engineering teams are already monitoring  
these forums, and you can expect prompt and helpful answers.

After an appropriate transition period, the Berkeley DB mailing lists  
will be turned off.

While it will no longer be possible to send email directly to a mailing
list, the use of an OTN forum has a couple of features that you may  
appreciate:
1.  The forum is searchable
2.  An RSS feed is available

Regards,

George Feinberg




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[George Feinberg-3]

A reminder.  Traffic on this mailing list should move to the
Berkeley DB XML forum:
        http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=274

All of the Sleepycat Software Berkeley DB support channels will move  
to Oracle support channels
during the month of August.

This includes the Berkeley DB Java Edition, Berkeley DB XML and  
Berkeley DB High Availability product mailing lists.

The mailing lists are being moved to the Oracle Technical Network  
forums:
         http://forums.oracle.com/forums/category.jspa?categoryID=18

There are four technical forums at this site: one each for Berkeley  
DB, Berkeley DB High Availability, Berkeley DB XML and Berkeley DB  
Java Edition.  Please select the appropriate forum and post your  
question there.

The Berkeley DB support and engineering teams are already monitoring  
these forums, and you can expect prompt and helpful answers.

After an appropriate transition period, the Berkeley DB mailing lists  
will be turned off.

While it will no longer be possible to send email directly to a mailing
list, the use of an OTN forum has a couple of features that you may  
appreciate:
1.  The forum is searchable
2.  An RSS feed is available
3.  You can "watch" a forum, getting email notifications of new  
postings,
with the content of the post.
4.  You can also watch specific threads or users.
5.  You can read, and search the forum as "guest" but you need to  
register
and sign in to post.

Regards,

George Feinberg




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[John Ralls]

On Aug 1, 2006, at 8:01 AM, George Feinberg wrote:

> A reminder.  Traffic on this mailing list should move to the
> Berkeley DB XML forum:
> http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=274
>
> All of the Sleepycat Software Berkeley DB support channels will  
> move to Oracle support channels
> during the month of August.
>
> This includes the Berkeley DB Java Edition, Berkeley DB XML and  
> Berkeley DB High Availability product mailing lists.
>
> The mailing lists are being moved to the Oracle Technical Network  
> forums:
>         http://forums.oracle.com/forums/category.jspa?categoryID=18
>
> There are four technical forums at this site: one each for Berkeley  
> DB, Berkeley DB High Availability, Berkeley DB XML and Berkeley DB  
> Java Edition.  Please select the appropriate forum and post your  
> question there.
>
> The Berkeley DB support and engineering teams are already  
> monitoring these forums, and you can expect prompt and helpful  
> answers.
>
> After an appropriate transition period, the Berkeley DB mailing  
> lists will be turned off.
>
> While it will no longer be possible to send email directly to a  
> mailing
> list, the use of an OTN forum has a couple of features that you may  
> appreciate:
> 1.  The forum is searchable
> 2.  An RSS feed is available
> 3.  You can "watch" a forum, getting email notifications of new  
> postings,
> with the content of the post.
> 4.  You can also watch specific threads or users.
> 5.  You can read, and search the forum as "guest" but you need to  
> register
> and sign in to post.
>
> Regards,
>
> George Feinberg

Well, the RSS is pretty much useless. It transmits the message only  
to the first \n.
The email from the watch function is seriously ugly: It also appears  
that one can't post via email, which makes it largely useful only for  
lurking.
And registration is clearly oriented toward corporate accounts rather  
than the open source community, with lots of impertinent "required"  
fields which are none of Oracle's business. (Required to be filled  
in, of course. No requirement for truth. ;-) )

Good way to ensure that the only support is from "official channels".

Regards,
John Ralls



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[George Feinberg-3]

John, all,

We welcome feedback on this issue.  It would be a bad thing to
lose even a small portion of the BDB XML community that has been
built by those on this list.  The development team very much
appreciates the excellent user participation on this mailing list,
and that feedback makes the product what it is.

It will be unfortunate if we lose people in the planned transition.  
Please
be patient, and persistent!   We will work within our new home at  
Oracle to keep
the BDB XML community together and happy.

If anyone has comments, suggestions or advice about how to keep
people involved, and make participation easier, we would love to hear  
from you,
publicly or privately.  Even if it's just to reiterate issues that  
have been brought up.

Thanks for your support!

Regards,

George, John, and the BDB XML team


On Aug 2, 2006, at 12:22 AM, John Ralls wrote:

> On Aug 1, 2006, at 8:01 AM, George Feinberg wrote:
>
>> A reminder.  Traffic on this mailing list should move to the
>> Berkeley DB XML forum:
>> http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=274
>>
>> All of the Sleepycat Software Berkeley DB support channels will  
>> move to Oracle support channels
>> during the month of August.
>>
>> This includes the Berkeley DB Java Edition, Berkeley DB XML and  
>> Berkeley DB High Availability product mailing lists.
>>
>> The mailing lists are being moved to the Oracle Technical Network  
>> forums:
>>         http://forums.oracle.com/forums/category.jspa?categoryID=18
>>
>> There are four technical forums at this site: one each for  
>> Berkeley DB, Berkeley DB High Availability, Berkeley DB XML and  
>> Berkeley DB Java Edition.  Please select the appropriate forum and  
>> post your question there.
>>
>> The Berkeley DB support and engineering teams are already  
>> monitoring these forums, and you can expect prompt and helpful  
>> answers.
>>
>> After an appropriate transition period, the Berkeley DB mailing  
>> lists will be turned off.
>>
>> While it will no longer be possible to send email directly to a  
>> mailing
>> list, the use of an OTN forum has a couple of features that you  
>> may appreciate:
>> 1.  The forum is searchable
>> 2.  An RSS feed is available
>> 3.  You can "watch" a forum, getting email notifications of new  
>> postings,
>> with the content of the post.
>> 4.  You can also watch specific threads or users.
>> 5.  You can read, and search the forum as "guest" but you need to  
>> register
>> and sign in to post.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> George Feinberg
>
> Well, the RSS is pretty much useless. It transmits the message only  
> to the first \n.
> The email from the watch function is seriously ugly: It also  
> appears that one can't post via email, which makes it largely  
> useful only for lurking.
> And registration is clearly oriented toward corporate accounts  
> rather than the open source community, with lots of impertinent  
> "required" fields which are none of Oracle's business. (Required to  
> be filled in, of course. No requirement for truth. ;-) )
>
> Good way to ensure that the only support is from "official channels".
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>
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