[arc-discuss] OpenSolaris ARC community email changes (see PSARC 2006/569)

[John Plocher]

[Note that this mail is going out to the extended OpenSolaris ARC 
community as well as Derek and Stephen]

Derek and Stephen,

As part of the opening up of PSARC, we would like to move the PSARC 
aliases out onto OpenSolaris.org.  Before we actually make any changes, 
we would like to brainstorm the best way to do them.  What follows is an 
initial starting point for discussion (see PSARC 2006/569 for additional 
context):

In order to have effective external ARC discussions, I think we need the 
following:

   o Fix the cross posting and Bcc problems on opensolaris.org.
     This is the configuration mess that requires all senders
     to be a member of all the aliases they crosspost to.  In
     addition, fix the "implicit destination" moderation hell
     resulting from the sac mail filter Bcc'ing to the
     opensolaris aliases.

   o Create a set of ARC aliases on opensolaris.org (details follow):

	opensolaris-arc@
	opensolaris-arc-discuss@
	opensolaris-arc-record@
	opensolaris-arc-chair@
	opensolaris-arc-agenda-request@
	opensolaris-arc-agenda-interest@
	opensolaris-arc-member-list@
	opensolaris-arc-intern-list@
	opensolaris-arc-licensee-list@
	opensolaris-arc-interest@


   o We don't want to archive the base opensolaris-arc alias
     directly because we want to process the mail on sac first.
     But we *do* want to make it appear as if the opensolaris-arc
     alias is the one being archived and mirrored.   Based on the
     sac mail filter's alias usage (see details below), it should
     be sufficient to archive only the opensolaris-arc-interest
     alias, as the others (opensolaris-arc-member-list and
     opensolaris-arc-intern-list) should all be identical.  If
     the mail archiver supports messageID based dup mail filtering,
     it would also be OK to dump all of them together into one
     archive to catch any misbehavior.  If that archive could be
     named "opensolaris-arc" without clobbering the above mail
     filtering, so much the better.


  -John

Details:

     opensolaris-arc@
	No  - Open subscription
	No  - Archived
	No  - Mirrored in jive forum
	Content:
		psarc-ext at sun.com
	Use:
		General ARC review discussion alias for
		Open ARC Cases.  All ARC review related
		mail will be sent to this alias, which
		forwards the mail on to

	        psarc-ext at Sun

		which forwards the mail on to

         	[the sac mail filter]

		The sac mail filter does a bunch of validation
		work, archiving and filing, and then sends
		the mail on (via a Bcc:) to the lists of
		interested people:

		        opensolaris-arc-member-list@
		        opensolaris-arc-intern-list@
		        opensolaris-arc-interest@
		    as well as
		        per-case IAM:Interest lists


     opensolaris-arc-member-list@
	No  - Open subscription
	No  - Archived
	No  - Mirrored in jive forum
	Content: (by invitation only)
		the list of PSARC members.
	Use:
		Private "membership roster" - not for
		use as a To: or Cc: for email messages

     opensolaris-arc-intern-list@
	No  - Open subscription
	No  - Archived
	No  - Mirrored in jive forum
	Content: (by invitation only)
		the list of PSARC interns.
	Use:
		Private "membership roster" - not for
		use as a To: or Cc: for email messages


     opensolaris-arc-interest@
	Yes - Open subscription
	Yes - Archived as opensolaris-arc
	Yes - Mirrored in jive forum opensolaris-arc
	Content:
		the current subscribers to opensolaris-arc
	Use:
		Private "membership roster" - not for
		use as a To: or Cc: for email messages


     opensolaris-arc-licensee-list@
	No  - Open subscription
	Yes - Archived
	Yes - Mirrored in jive forum
	Content:
		the current list of PSARC licensees.
	Use:
		General alias to send messages to everyone
		who is allowed to sponsor ARC fasttracks.

     opensolaris-arc-agenda-interest@
	Yes  - Open subscription
	Yes  - Archived
	Yes  - Mirrored in jive forum
	Content:
		<initially empty>
	Use:
		Announcements of future ARC agendas
		(or is this better handled by using
		opensolaris-arc-announce@ ?)

     opensolaris-arc-discuss@
	No  - Open subscription
	No  - Archived (becomes part of opensolaris-arc
	      forum/archive)
	No  - Mirrored in jive forum (see above)
	Content:
		psarc-discuss-ext at sac.sfbay.sun.com
	Use:
		ARC discussions that don't concern any
		specific case

     opensolaris-arc-record@
	No  - Open subscription
	No  - Archived
	No  - Mirrored in jive forum
	Content:
		psarc-record-ext at sac.sfbay.sun.com
	Use:
		Causes mail to be archived in case mail archive,
		but not sent to the people on the ARC aliases.

     opensolaris-arc-chair@
	No  - Open subscription
	Yes - Archived
	Yes - Mirrored in jive forum
	Content:
		psarc-chair at sac.sfbay.sun.com
	Use:
		Mail about ARC topics to the ARC Chairperson

     opensolaris-arc-agenda-request@
	No  - Open subscription
	Yes - Archived
	Yes - Mirrored in jive forum
	Content:
		psarc-agends-request-ext at sac.sfbay.sun.com
	Use:
		Requests to be scheduled for an ARC review