[Openstack] Fwd: [Infra] administration of new mailinglists

Matt Joyce matt.joyce at cloudscaling.com
Tue May 29 21:08:04 UTC 2012


+1  Simple.  And works for most other projects well enough.

-Matt

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>wrote:

> James E. Blair wrote:
> > I believe we should at least have the common set of three mailing lists
> > (announce, user/operator, dev) and have a web page that lists them.
>
> +1
>
> We need an official channel for reference information about, at the very
> least, milestones/releases and security updates. We also need it for
> major community events (think announce the next design summit or
> upcoming elections). So far we (ab)used the general mailing-list for
> that, and I think the amount of traffic now makes it an inappropriate
> channel for reference information. We never used the existing -announce
> list because it was never exposed as the medium for reference information.
>
> An -announce list still sounds like the best way to achieve that. You
> can have direct posters like security or release team. You can have a
> moderation team so that anyone can potentially post reference
> information. That doesn't mean we can't use other channels like Twitter,
> blogs, G+, newsletter or whatever is cool these days, but none of those
> are actually a reference channel, so they are complementary rather than
> a replacement.
>
> If we go for -announce and -dev, I think we should use the "classic"
> names and move the openstack at lists.launchpad.net to
> openstack-users at lists.openstack.org. Then it would make sense to merge
> openstack-operators into it.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> Release Manager, OpenStack
>
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