On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Stephen Lau wrote: > Eric Boutilier wrote: >> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >>> Eric Boutilier wrote: >>>> This message is a notification of project instantiation only. >>>> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/policies/project-instantiation.txt >>>> For notification of project openings, subscribe to opensolaris-announce. >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-announce >>> >>> I thought the intention was that project openings go to project-announce >>> and we stop sending them to opensolaris-announce? >> >> Awaiting more feedback on this... >> >> My 2 cents (though I'm not an OGB member): A newcomer (and >> many "old-comers") to opensolaris might subscribe to >> opensolaris-announce expecting that surely, if anything, >> newly opened projects would get announced there... >> >> Agree, disagree? > > I disagree; but it's partly because we'd like to repurpose > opensolaris-announce. The problem is there is no site-wide mandatory > subscription list currently, so there is no way to announce things like site > outages, or community-impacting announcements (such as the new community or > project instantiation policies). > > We'd like to repurpose opensolaris-announce and have it be a mandatory > subscription for *every* registered user on opensolaris.org. However, a > mandatory list that is too "noisy" sucks for those users. So we'd like to > have project-announce be used for that.
OK, that makes sense, and I mostly follow, except for the last sentence. Are you saying less impactful announcements, (such as builds available, monthly newsletter, etc.) would go to project-announce along with project announcements? (FWIW, my inclination is list consolidation whenever possible rather than list expansion -- under the assumption that everyone knows how to leverage INBOX processing tools.) Eric
