Open Stack

On 2015-09-03 12:17:14 -0400 (-0400), Ju Lim wrote:
> Thank you for replying to my question. The reason for the renaming
> of the mailing list from openstack-personas to openstack-ux is as
> follows: (1) openstack personas effort started out focused on
> personas but it's really part of the overall openstack-ux efforts.

This is not at all unusual. The scope of interest for subgroups
within the OpenStack community changes continually. The short and
long descriptions of mailing lists can also be adjusted to suit. On
the other hand changing the E-mail address used by the mailing list
is non-trivial.

> (2) all members on openstack-personas are automatically part of
> openstack-ux efforts, and we've had some resistance from existing
> members to have to resubscribe to a new list and to keep using the
> existing list.

I still don't understand why that's necessary. Why does this imply a
need to change the E-mail address for that mailing list at all?

> The analogy I would make to this is renaming [openstack-nova] to
> [openstack-dev] and being inclusive to all in the dev community
> and using [nova] in the subject line later to call out which
> services or areas the content is about.

The prefixed subject tag is also configurable within the list admin
interface and does not have to match the localname from the list's
E-mail address.

> When you say disruptive, is it disruptive to all mailing list or
> only the openstack-personas mailing list?  Our intent is we
> preserve our members and not put subscription burdens on them and
> also have a single mailing list for all UX activities and not have
> multiple mailing lists.

Replies to messages from before the rename will bounce back to the
sender, attempts to unsubscribe from the list via the old name or
take other admin actions will fail, bookmarks and other references
to the list description page or old archive URLs will 404, et
cetera.
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Jeremy Stanley