Open Stack

On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 11:26 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-10-15 at 09:27 -0400, Jay Pipes wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 19:47 +0000, Chris Behrens wrote:
> > >> On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:
> > >
> > >> > Some conversations about GitHub, project autonomy, and migration going
> > >> > back to June:
> > >> >
> > >> > http://www.mail-archive.com/openstack-poc@lists.launchpad.net/msg00176.html
> > >> > https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack-poc/msg00150.html
> > >> > http://osdir.com/ml/openstack-cloud-computing/2011-08/msg00077.html
> > >>
> > >> Sorry, I don't read openstack-poc.  Maybe I should.  I don't feel like
> > >> that's 'public discussion', though.
> > >
> > > So, I hadn't see openstack-poc before:
> > >
> > >  https://launchpad.net/~openstack-poc
> > >
> > > It looks like some interesting conversations happen there. The archives
> > > are public, but is there any way for interested folks to subscribe so
> > > that don't have to regularly check the archives?
> > 
> > Unfortunately, the way LP mailing lists are managed, subscriptions are
> > based on teams, and the OpenStack POC is a closed team :(
> > 
> > That said, folks like Chuck Thier are members of the OpenStack POC
> > team and are not on the PPB, so perhaps you can just join the team and
> > Jonathan Bryce, our illustrious PPB chair, will just add you to the
> > team so you can subscribe?
> 
> Thanks for the idea Jay, but it looks like you can't request to join
> closed groups through launchpad. Jonathan?

I never got an answer to this and I just now noticed that at least one
other important discussion happened on the list:

  https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack-poc/msg00278.html

This isn't so much of a personal concern - I probably just would have
skimmed over the thread - but why are discussions like this happening on
a list that isn't open to new folks to join?

Cheers,
Mark.