Makes sense to me. On Apr 27, 2012 2:27 PM, "Everett Toews" <everett.to...@cybera.ca> wrote:
> I like this idea but what happens to the openstack-operators list in this > scenario? > > I don't think we'd want to have the openstack and openstack-operators list > going along in parallel since it sounds like they would overlap. I propose > that the members of the openstack-operators list would be (automatically or > manually) migrated to the openstack list. Then the openstack-operators list > would be set to read-only or maybe even removed completely to avoid > confusion. > > Comments? Feedback? > > Everett > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org>wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> TL;DR summary: >> Due to traffic exploding, we will split the current openstack list into >> user / usage topics (openstack list) and development / next-version >> topics (openstack-dev list). >> >> Long version: >> >> At the "Communication" session at the design summit [1] we looked at the >> state of our communication media in general, and mailing-list in >> particular [2]. >> >> [1] >> >> http://folsomdesignsummit2012.sched.org/event/366accca0fda271fc23e82b9cb5162cc >> [2] http://etherpad.openstack.org/FolsomCommunication >> >> The traffic on the openstack@lists.launchpad.net list doubled in the >> last 4 months [3], with more users and deployers asking for information >> on OpenStack projects. It becomes difficult for contributors to properly >> prioritize their ML reading, and we can no longer have all the >> discussions in the same place. >> >> [3] http://openstack.markmail.org/ >> >> The proposal is to split between: >> >> 1/ Usage, deployment, Essex / current-stable discussions >> 2/ Development, contribution, Folsom / forward-looking discussions >> >> A new list will be created for (2) and existing contributors will be >> asked to subscribe to that new list. >> >> Since we expect to have a more disciplined/focused group in that new >> list, we'll define a set of subject prefixes that should be used for >> easier client-side/at-a-glance filtering of discussions: >> >> [General] Affects all projects >> [Swift] [Nova] [Glance] [Quantum] [Horizon] [Keystone] Project-specific >> [Common] openstack-common >> [QA] [CI] [Docs] Discussions / Information on specific topics >> [...] Add your own here >> >> To keep that list usable, I suggest we aggressively enforce those topics >> and redirect inappropriate discussions to the other list when necessary. >> >> To avoid Launchpad list slowness, we would run the new openstack-dev >> list off lists.openstack.org. Given the potential hassle of dealing with >> spam and delivery issues on mission-critical MLs, we are looking into >> the possibility of outsourcing the maintenance of lists.openstack.org to >> a group with established expertise running mailman instances. Please let >> us know ASAP if you could offer such services. We are not married to >> mailman either -- if an alternative service offers good performance and >> better integration (like OpenID-based subscription to integrate with our >> SSO), we would definitely consider it. >> >> There was a suggestion during the session of using umbrella/siblings >> lists to aggregate content from multiple project-specific sublists. I >> reviewed the options and I think it introduces a lot of complexity, >> reduces flexibility in adding new topics, so client-side filtering >> sounds like a better bet. If most people use subject prefixes >> appropriately, keeping it simple is probably the best bet. >> >> We'll let you know when the new list is set up. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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