[kde-community] RFC: Announcing new mailing lists

[Laszlo Papp]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> El Dissabte, 20 de desembre de 2014, a les 22:19:35, Ben Cooksley va escriure:
>> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Valorie Zimmerman
>>
>> <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>> >> Hi guys, sometimes i realize some interesting discussions are being
>> >> carried on mailing lists i didn't ever know they existed.
>> >>
>> >> Do you think it'd be a good idea to ask sysadmins to send an email to
>> >> this
>> >> list every time a new public mailing list is created?
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >>   Albert
>> >
>> > It would be nice if *somebody* announced them - could be sysadmin,
>> > could be the new team, or the incubation team.
>>
>> In some instances, the creation of a new mailing list (like a
>> bugs-dist list) would be noise.
>> I'd be in favour of the requestor(s) announcing the new list though -
>> so they could explain what the list would be used for.
>>
>> If sysadmin ends up doing it we'll likely be unable to provide as
>> decent an explanation (as we're simply not as involved).
>
> But you're the only ones knowing that a mailing list has created. And as far
> as i understand there's a description field asked when requesting a list no?
> Could automatically send an email here saying "List X was created with
> description Y".

+1.

If it is not automated, it will likely not be done properly as some
people will forget about it. It ought to be easy to implement, too.