This is a long-overdue request. It's been more than a year since we combined openstack, openstack-dev, openstack-ops, openstack-sigs, openstack-tc and a number of other lower-traffic mailing lists into this new openstack-discuss mailing list. In that time, I've been serving as the sole administrator and moderator for the combined list. As I'm about to take an extended vacation away from regular Internet access for the first time since the list migration, I will be unable to check the moderation queue on a daily basis, and so would appreciate a bit of help from some of you. If there's anyone interested in helping out as additional administrators for the openstack-discuss mailing list, please reply to this message on-list (so other subscribers know who is volunteering) and I'll help bring you up to speed. In the immediate term I need at least one person willing to check the moderation queue a few times in the second half of December while I'm unavailable (daily would be awesome but a couple times a week is probably fine really). If you're expecting to be around and able to help with that, please respond on Monday or Tuesday of this week and I'll sync up to get you a copy of the Mailman administrator password for it and a quick walk-through of the moderator interface (if you already moderate other Mailman lists, all the better!). Moderation queue volume is typically on the order of twenty to fifty messages a day, most of which are spam of course, but one or two a day on average are legitimate messages either from non-subscribers with a question or sometimes slightly over the size limit because of attached logs. The spam and non-spam are pretty easy to tell apart if you've been around our community for a while: if the subject of the message has a recognizable topic tag in it or mentions the name of some OpenStack project then it's quite likely legitimate and can be approved. Spam on the other had usually either has a subject which is not in English (the required language for messages to this list) or is clearly someone selling something or running a scam. When in doubt though, you can quickly check the message body to be sure. I tend to spend at most 5 minutes a day looking through the moderation queue (and usually far less). Longer term, I'd like to see anywhere between 3-5 admins for the openstack-discuss list. No need to coordinate workload or vacations that way, we can just each check the queue when we think about it and that should be plenty often. Also while keeping on top of the moderation queue is the primary need, it would be great for these folks to know/learn a bit about how Mailman mailing lists are configured and how to troubleshoot them from the WebUI and message headers. Better still, if anyone wants to get even more involved, the OpenDev sysadmins would always welcome new recruits willing to help manage and run our mailing list servers and our infrastructure overall, I'm happy to make introductions! -- Jeremy Stanley