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[Matt Ray <matt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Duncan McGreggor <duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Everett Toews <everett.toews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Stefano,
>>
>> I was replying to Duncan's email, not Thierry's. I'm all for the new
>> openstack-dev list.
>>
>> It was Duncan's proposal that the other lists be split as so.
>>
>> 1. openstack-dev = Dev
>> 2. openstack = Ops
>> 3. openstack-operators = DevOps
<snip>

I think adding the "openstack-dev" list will help alleviate traffic on
"openstack", but we should keep 3 mailing lists. The "openstack" one
will probably continue to be a mix of traffic, and as new community
members become more familiar with the mailing list landscape they'll
move to the proper lists (with gentle encouragement as well). With
more visibility and encouragement, more focused operations questions
will get to the proper "openstack-operators" list in the future
(likewise -dev). I don't expect mailing list traffic to decrease in
the future, so reducing the number of mailing lists seems unnecessary.

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Senior Technical Evangelist | Opscode Inc.
matt@xxxxxxxxxxx | (512) 731-2218
Twitter, IRC, GitHub: mattray




> To be clear, my proposal is to see how the devops community feels
> about this, before deciding it's a good idea, without their input.
>
>> I am questioning the necessity to have both lists 2 and 3. My proposal boils
>> down to the question, does the DevOps community really need its own list?
>
> As soon as it's clear that *everyone* feels this way, we should do it.
> Until then, we should not make decisions that impact the community
> (e.g., taking something away that may be valueable to some) without
> getting their feedback and finding some way transition in a way that
> keeps everyone happy.
>
>> I'm willing to wait until the next Summit to see what the traffic numbers
>> are like on the openstack and openstack-operators lists before any decisions
>> are made around merging them or keeping them separate.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> However, I still
>> think it's worthwhile to ask the question above.
>
> Agreed.
>
> d
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