Open Stack

On 11/14/2013 07:54 PM, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> On 11/14/2013 5:12 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I think that we have recently reached critical mass for the
>> openstack-dev mailing-list, with 2267 messages posted in October, and
>> November well on its way to pass 2000 again. Some of those are just
>> off-topic (and I've been regularly fighting against them) but most of
>> them are just about us covering an ever-increasing scope, stretching the
>> definition of what we include in "openstack development".
>>
>> Therefore I'd like to propose a split between two lists:
>>
>> *openstack-dev*: Discussions on future development for OpenStack
>> official projects
>>
>> *stackforge-dev*: Discussions on development for stackforge-hosted
>> projects
>>
> 
> I would suggest that each *established* project (core or incubator) have
> its own mailing list, and that "openstack-dev" be reserved for
> topics of potential interest across multiple projects (which new
> projects would qualify as).

We've actually explicitly avoiding this model for quite some time on
purpose. The main reason being that one of the hardest challenges we
have is cross-project collaboration. Hacking just one one project? Not
so hard. Producing the output of 18 in a coordinated fashion? Hard.

Everyone does a great job so far of prefixing things.