[openstack-dev] Split of the openstack-dev list

Monty Taylor mordred at inaugust.com
Sat Nov 16 07:43:48 UTC 2013



On 11/15/2013 04:13 AM, Sylvain Bauza wrote:
> Le 14/11/2013 20:46, Clint Byrum a écrit :
>>
>> Now, choose which city will grow faster and produce more innovation.
>>
> 
> The problem is larger than only innovation, it is also making sure the
> Stackforge projects are also a starting point for contributing to
> Openstack in a different manner. ATCs can also get the opportunity to
> jump in another project on their spare time if they wish.
> Isolating Stackforge projects into a separate mailing-list would then
> reduce visibility to Stackforge projects and as a consequence would
> reduce the permeability between Openstack and Stackforge.
> 
> On a technical note, as a Stackforge contributor, I'm trying to
> implement best practices of Openstack coding into my own project, and
> I'm facing day-to-day issues trying to understand what Oslo libs do or
> how they can be used in a fashion manner. Should I want to ask question
> to the community, I would have to cross-post to both lists.
> 
> One last point, having two different lists with most of people
> subscribing to both wouldn't help reduce the noise, as you would still
> get all the messages (maybe in two different folders, but still
> getting'em). I totally agree with the fact that openstack-dev@ is noisy.
> That said, we need to enforce the use of Subject headers and maybe
> accept meetings reminders are not relevant to be communicated using this
> channel (we could still notify people within the IRC rooms) and chase up
> any non-development question, that would be a first step for that.
> 
> One last thing I'm thinking about is logging IRC channel discussions so
> we could keep track of discussions over there, that would maybe help
> reducing the number of chatty messages we're sending off to the list
> just about implementation or reviews concerns.

IRC channels are currently able to be logged, and several of them are.

http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/

If you have another channel you want logged, it's totally an easily
requestable thing.



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