[OOTB-hive] Proposal: Coalesce the mailing lists
Jeff Potts
jeffpotts01 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 14:55:17 BST 2016
+1 to merging all lists into one.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Oksana Kurysheva <okurysheva at itdhq.com>
wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> You can easily remove MKT mailing list. We don't use it at all. Even for
> internal collaboration about BeeCon we used marketing at ootb and beecon at ootb addresses.
> Marketing and mailing lists arу inconsistent :)
>
> Regards,
> Oksana
>
> ------------------------------
> *From: *martin at bettercode.com
> *To: *ootb-hive at xtreamlab.net
> *Sent: *Wednesday, July 13, 2016 1:59:20 PM
> *Subject: *[OOTB-hive] Proposal: Coalesce the mailing lists
>
>
>
> Hi all
>
> Currently we have 6 mailing lists. This one and one per committee.
> Pretty much the only thing that happens in five of them is spam
> mitigation. These are managed uncomplainingly by an open source
> organisation run by a friend of mine, but I do know that there is a
> definite administrative overhead associated with maintaining them.
>
> I would like to propose that we reduce the number of mailing lists to
> just this one. There is not so much traffic that we will overwhelm
> subscribers. However I realise many people don't want the minutiae of
> INFRA or DISTRO conversations in their inbox. Personally, conversations
> about governance send me to sleep (even in the board meetings, oops!).
>
> So I suggest we set a subject prefix when talking about
> committee-specific topics, e.g. "[DISTRO] latest release of the
> dockerfile" and that when we have a generic conversation we merely use
> no prefix. That way subscribers can set negative filters on the topics
> that they don't want to hear about.
>
> What do we think? I'd really like to be able to go back to the xtreamlab
> guys and say thanks very much but turn that lot off....
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
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