---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> Date: Sat, May 26, 2012 at 2:38 PM Subject: Re: administration of new mailinglists To: Monty Taylor <mord...@inaugust.com> Cc: Stefano Maffulli <stef...@openstack.org>, Duncan McGreggor <dun...@dreamhost.com>, Michael Tietz <ti...@b1-systems.de>, Christian Berendt <bere...@b1-systems.de>, "James E. Blair" <cor...@inaugust.com>
Monty Taylor wrote: > On 05/25/2012 03:27 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: >> Stefano Maffulli wrote: >>> On 05/23/2012 05:58 PM, Stefano Maffulli wrote: >>>> http://etherpad.openstack.org/newmlist-layout >>> >>> re-reading this list, I think it's not clear to me what purpose the >>> 'old' list on launchpad will serve. >>> >>> How shall we re-purpose it? If we keep it, do we need to keep also >>> operators (in what would they differ?) >> >> The current list (the "General" list) is the default discussion list >> about everything openstack. We have decided to move the development >> discussions (focused on the next release of OpenStack) out of this list >> and on its own list. That doesn't suddenly make it empty. It's still the >> list for discussing everything openstack, with a focus on the latest >> stable release. >> >> I think we should keep it, because it is certainly the biggest openstack >> list out there, with 2072 subscribers. > > tl;dr - I could not possible disagree more strongly. There should be one > place for mailing lists. If we are running our own mailman properly > already, this list should move there. I think the 2072 subscribers will > be able to figure out it. That's a valid point (my point was about the topic of the list, not so much about its location). I'm not really attached to the LP setup, it's more a question of disruption for our existing users, but the benefit might be worth it. That said, I still think there is value in a "default" discussion list, separate from the development list. I guess we could have: openstack@l.o.o - default discussion about openstack - present-looking openstack-dev@l.o.o - development discussions - forward-looking openstack-operators@l.o.o - "operators" (??) Alternatively we can have a more classic: openstack-announce@l.o.o - Important announcements openstack-users@l.o.o - discussion about using openstack, present-lookin openstack-dev@l.o.o - development discussions - forward-looking We would rename "operators" to "users" and encourage current subscribers to join it. Two questions: how do you merge the old archives with the operators archive ? And for "announce": who gets the right to post to it ? Or rather, who gets to moderate the posts to it ? PPB ? PTL/relmgr ? Any volunteer ? -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) Release Manager, OpenStack _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
