On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> A quick summary of where we are, in case you haven't been following > the previous threads. > > Information on the top 100 legacy mailing lists is on the wiki [1]. > A draft note that will be sent to these lists is an another page [2]. > > If you note in that first page, the "Migration Owner" column is blank. > So either I need to quickly learn French, Dutch and Japanese, or I > need some help here. > > Volunteers would translate the note, send it to the relevant NL lists, > and be available on those lists to answer any migration-related > questions. Ideally you would already be a participant on the lists > and familiar to that community. > > As for staging, I'd recommend that we do not do this all at once. > Migrating 100 lists at once would be very messy. But we can easily > break this down into related groups of lists and do the migration over > a few weeks. One possible staging would be: > > 1) All the lists that will be merged into the new ooo-marketing list. > This will help jump start that lists important work, and bring > community members into the discussion who might not have been > interested in the other topics we've been discussing on ooo-dev. > > 2) All of the lists that will be merged into ooo-dev > > 3) All of the lists that will be merged into ooo-users > > 4) NL lists (which could be done in parallel with the above. However, > they will require some discussion and admin work to create new > ooo-lang lists,) > > The thought behind this staging is that we "work out the kinks" with > the more technical and (hopefully) more forgiving project lists, > before moving on to the user and NL lists. We can adjust the > instructions and messaging based on what we learn from the initial > migrations. > > Regards, > > -Rob > > Have the "new" NL lists been setup already? I may have missed that and I haven't look at any jira tix. > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Mailing+lists > [2] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Email+Migration+Post > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "This is no social crisis Just another tricky day for you." -- "Tricky Day", the Who
