Hi folks, First, I apologize for bringing up another non-release related discussion topic.
There have been a couple of times where the issue of the existing cloudstack.org email addresses have come up - and it's now on our todo list[1] == The current situation == cloudstack.org currently provides email services via Google Apps for Domains. There are (guesstimate) less than 10 email addresses for cloudstack.org, most of them distribution aliases and the balance held by Citrix employees assigned to work on CloudStack full time. == The issue == At some point in time, after we've migrated enough of our infrastructure to the ASF, the cloudstack.org domain will also be transferred. There seems to be a precedent of email aliases/addresses going away [2], such as what happened with openoffice.org addresses. As Shane points out in the below thread, there is an issue with non-committers holding 'resources' of an ASF project, etc. The other issue is that there are currently a number of 'group addresses' that exist and will need to be handled, and some proposed addresses (like security@cs.o) Finally, it seems that the ASF doesn't provide email service itself, but provides aliases. == Decision point == As a project we need to decide what to do with CloudStack email service. Regardless of our decision, I want the timeline to be long enough to have minimal impact on people currently using those resources. I see a few options - there might be more, feel free to chime in with some. The options I see are: 1. Discontinue all cloudstack.org email service. 2. Provide only official - project specific emails aliases (think webmaster@, security@, etc.) 3. Provide both official project emails as well as committer email aliases. 4. Ask infra to let the project manage email service with Google Apps for domains, or some similar service. Obviously we are also bound by what infra guides us to, so one or more of these options might not really be an option, but I figured we'd try and get some consensus around this. Thoughts, comments, flames, other options? --David [1]http://incubator.apache.org/projects/cloudstack.html [2] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201108.mbox/%3c4e452271.8050...@shanecurcuru.org%3E
