To be clearer, since I realize now my subject title (ironically) was a bit poor... The goal here is definitely to have common discussions around OpenStack between all contributors. But while most topics benefit from wide input, some are very specific, and applying appropriate subject prefixes will people efficiently filter the discussions they are the most interested about. Upgrading a version of pep8 has little user-visible impact, for example, and would benefit from being tagged [dev]. Cheers, -- Thierry Carrez (ttx)

Thierry Carrez <thierry@openstack.org> writes:

Hi openstack-discuss,

As part of the ML merge, we introduced a number of subject prefixes to help subscribers filter discussions. The most important ones are to use:

[dev] For discussions that are purely development-oriented [ops] For discussions that are purely operations-oriented

Of course (as we have realized with the amount of cross-posted topics), most discussions benefit from input from all our contributors, whether they come from an development or an operational background. For those, there is no need to apply [dev] and/or [ops] prefixes, just try to be informative by adding the project name, team name or other information instead.

You can ping specific populations by adding:

[tc] Discussions of interest for TC members [uc] Discussions of interest for UC members [ptl] Discussions of interest for all PTLs [release] Release team, release liaisons and PTLs

You can also specifically use (with care):

[all] For discussions that should really be of interest to EVERYONE

See (and add!) other common subject prefixes at: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/common-openstack-ml-topics

Thanks for your help in making this common list more navigable.

-- Thierry Carrez (ttx)

Should we start moving this information into the project team guide? -- Doug