Open Stack

I like these two penneth.

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On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Kevin Jackson
<kevin at linuxservices.co.uk> wrote:
> My two penneth worth:
>
> I'd be confused as to what the difference between "general" and "operators"
> would be and would result in people posting to both - so that goes for
> openstack at ... openstack-general at ... and openstack-operators@
>
> It would seem that there is a clear distinction between development
> questions (-dev), announcements (-announce) and then anything else (people
> asking for help from a variety of skill levels) - so:
>
> openstack at ...
> openstack-dev@
> openstack-announce@
> openstack-security@
>
> Would be my vote (sorry for adding in -security, would that be considered?)
>
> Cheers,
> Kev
>
>
>
> On 4 September 2012 10:37, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
>>
>> Stefano Maffulli wrote:
>> > Now, the main question is still open: where should the General mailing
>> > list go? Anybody disagrees that we should merge this list into
>> > 'Operators'?
>>
>> I think there are two options:
>>
>> Option A1:
>> openstack-general at lists.openstack.org
>> openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
>> openstack-announce at lists.openstack.org
>> openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>> ...
>> "openstack-general" makes it clear this is about general questions and
>> things that address the whole community. This would be a straight
>> replacement of the current openstack at launchpad mailing-list.
>>
>> Option A2:
>> openstack at lists.openstack.org
>> openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
>> openstack-announce at lists.openstack.org
>> openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>> ...
>> Same, using "openstack" instead of "openstack-general". Makes it clear
>> it's the "default" list.
>>
>> Option B:
>> openstack-user at lists.openstack.org
>> openstack-announce at lists.openstack.org
>> openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
>> ...
>> "User" would be a merge of the current list with the operators list. The
>> benefit is that it matches a recognized pattern in open source project
>> lists (-user, -dev, -announce). The drawback is that there is no default
>> list for newcomers or general discussion, and operators-specific topics
>> will get lost on the -user list, the same way the dev topics used to be.
>>
>> Personally, I prefer option A. On one side you have a general list where
>> almost everyone lurks, on the other you have several topic- or
>> team-oriented lists with sharper focus. One issue is that it's difficult
>> to spot important things on the (noisy) general list, but we also have a
>> (moderated) -announce list that we can more actively use for things we
>> want to make sure everyone sees.
>>
>> Any other option ? Which one do you prefer ?
>>
>> --
>> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>> Release Manager, OpenStack
>>
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