[kde-community] RFC: Announcing new mailing lists

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting at kde.org> wrote:
>> That sounds like it meets everyone's requirements to me.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> El Dilluns, 22 de desembre de 2014, a les 15:05:52, Ben Cooksley va
>>> escriure:
>>> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Mario Fux <kde-ml at unormal.org> wrote:
>>> > > Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2014, 22.21:01 schrieb Laszlo Papp:
>>> > >
>>> > > Morning
>>> > >
>>> > > [sbip]
>>> > >
>>> > >> > 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.
>>> > >
>>> > > +1 for automating it. At the moment I don't see a reason why the
>>> > > creation
>>> > > of a new mailing list shouldn't be announced and if it's automatable
>>> > > let's do it. Then we don't forget it. What's the advantage of telling
>>> > > the
>>> > > requester to announce in comparison to do it automatically?
>>> >
>>> > We can certainly make it part of sysadmin procedure.
>>> > I'd still like to see the list requestor be part of the process though.
>>>
>>> Totally, what do you think about the automated email say something like
>>>
>>> *******
>>> $PersonName created the list $ListName
>>> Description: $ListDescription
>>>
>>> If you want to know more about it please ask $PersonName
>>> *******
>>>
>>> And the email being sent to this list with CC to $PersonName so people can
>>> ask
>>> him in case she is not in this list?
>
> I can volunteer for the implementation if there is no one else and if
> it is python, but I guess the details could be discussed off-list,
> couldn't they...

As creating a list is a manual task, i've added "inform
kde-community at kde.org" to the list of steps involved in creating a
mailing list.
Some of these are necessarily manual anyway - like setting up Markmail
archiving.

>
>>> Cheers,
>>>   Albert
>>>
>>> >
>>> > > griits
>>> > > Mario
>>> >
>>> > Cheers,
>>> > Ben

Thanks,
Ben

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