[ogb-discuss] Format for project-announce

[Eric Boutilier]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Stephen Lau wrote:
> Eric Boutilier wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>> Eric Boutilier wrote:
>>>> This message is a notification of project instantiation only.
>>>> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/policies/project-instantiation.txt 
>>>> For notification of project openings, subscribe to opensolaris-announce.
>>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-announce
>>> 
>>> I thought the intention was that project openings go to project-announce
>>> and we stop sending them to opensolaris-announce?
>> 
>> Awaiting more feedback on this...
>> 
>> My 2 cents (though I'm not an OGB member): A newcomer (and
>> many "old-comers") to opensolaris might subscribe to
>> opensolaris-announce expecting that surely, if anything,
>> newly opened projects would get announced there...
>> 
>> Agree, disagree?
>
> I disagree; but it's partly because we'd like to repurpose 
> opensolaris-announce.  The problem is there is no site-wide mandatory 
> subscription list currently, so there is no way to announce things like site 
> outages, or community-impacting announcements (such as the new community or 
> project instantiation policies).
>
> We'd like to repurpose opensolaris-announce and have it be a mandatory 
> subscription for *every* registered user on opensolaris.org.  However, a 
> mandatory list that is too "noisy" sucks for those users.  So we'd like to 
> have project-announce be used for that.

OK, that makes sense, and I mostly follow, except for the last sentence.
Are you saying less impactful announcements, (such as builds available,
monthly newsletter, etc.) would go to project-announce along with project
announcements? (FWIW, my inclination is list consolidation whenever
possible rather than list expansion -- under the assumption that everyone
knows how to leverage INBOX processing tools.)

Eric