On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Brian Schott < brian.schott at nimbisservices.com> wrote: > At the risk of getting bad e-karma for cross posting to > openstack-operators, that might be the place to post that question. I for > one disagree that we should merge the openstack general list into > openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org and the only other vote I caught > on this thread also disagreed. > Everyone who responded to the question so far opposed merging the general list with operators. > > Several reasons: > > 1) new users will look for openstack at openstack.lists.openstack.org because openstack-dev at and openstack-operators at are both specific things. community at might have been an option, but that is taken already. > 2) operations guys are just as specialized as devs in terms of what they > want to talk about, it isn't meant for general "why openstack" questions. > 3) if/when you migrate email addresses / logs it will be easier to move > them to a brand new list. Otherwise you will have to try to merge history > and not step on existing data. > 4) reusing an email address for the sake of optimization of having "too > many lists" at the cost of community confusion is false optimization, > you'll just get more non-dev traffic on the dev list if the choice is -dev > or -operators. > yes, yes, yes and yes. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/attachments/20120828/56b2f34b/attachment-0001.html>