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[Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/27/2012 09:44 AM, Duncan McGreggor wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hey everyone!
>>
>> On 04/27/2012 05:04 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Just to be clear - I definitely think that mailing lists are an
>> important part of dev infrastructure and would love for this to be a
>> fully integrated part of all of the rest of our tools. However, the
>> current set of active infrastructure team members have huge todo lists
>> at the moment. So the biggest home run from my perspective would be if
>> someone out there had time or resources and wanted to join us on the
>> infra team to manage this on our existing resources (turns out we have
>> plenty of servers for running this, and even a decent amount of
>> expertise, just missing manpower). The existing team would be more than
>> happy to be involved, and it would help avoid get-hit-by-a-truck issues.
>> We're a pretty friendly bunch, I promise.
>>
>> Any takers? Anybody want to pony up somebody with some bandwidth to
>> admin a mailman? Respond back here or just find us in #openstack-infra
>> and we'll get you plugged in and stuff.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Monty
> 
> Count me in, Monty.
> 
> I've been managing mailman lists for about 12 years now (and,
> incidentally, Barry and I are bruthas from anutha mutha), so I'd be
> quite comfortable handling those responsibilities. I can couple it
> with the python.org SIG mail list that I manage, so there'd be zero
> context switching.

You make me very happy! Let's work out the details and stuff...

Check it out - it's like we're, you know, a collaborative community or
something!