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[Duncan McGreggor <duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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...

Right on.

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

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