[kde-community] RFC: Announcing new mailing lists

[David Edmundson]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 4:54 AM, 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".
> >
>
> We're the only ones who know about every list that is created yes.
> However those requesting the new list will certainly be aware of it
> have being created.
>
> While we do request a description, sometimes people may want to
> provide additional details on what the list is intended for.
>
>
> That makes sense, it can be a simple social policy. Just like moving
something to kdereview.
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