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[Stefano Maffulli <stefano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/29/2012 12:32 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> We really shouldn't go in that direction: the openstack-dev list is
> already an aggregator of topics, since we use "mailman topics" on it.

Indeed, mailman topics are very powerful. The current topics for 
openstack-dev are listed on each subscriber's personal page:

http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/openstack-dev

As a subscriber of openstack-dev I can decide to receive only messages 
tagged for a topic by selecting the ones I'm interested in. As a writer 
of a message I can tag it by adding the topic to the subject line of the 
message.

For example, if I want to receive only messages for Nova, I can 
subscribe to the Nova topic at the link above. When I write a message 
about nova I have to add '[Nova]' (or 'Nova') anywhere in the subject.

Creating a topic of bare-metal is easy, using topics is a matter of 
habit. I believe that we should not create more lists unless strictly 
necessary. I also understood from David that the baremetal group felt 
very strongly against using any of the existing list, even when I 
suggested to use topics. I'm glad we're having this conversation now and 
I'm open to any outcome.

/stef