[ogb-discuss] Format for project-announce

[Eric Boutilier]

Cool. Works for me. FWIW, where I got off track was my erroneous assumption
(probably resulting from something I missed in an earlier discussion
elsewhere) that the breadth of the use of project-discuss was mostly
defined in the Project Instatiation Document. That is, as opposed to the
way you outline its use below (which I personally like a lot).

Eric


On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:45:26PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote:
>
>> 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.)
>
> This is the exact opposite of what we do within Sun, though, and I
> find that our strategy works well at serving a similarly-sized and
> equally diverse population.  Using procmail to sort mail by list is
> easy, but with inclusive lists, making sure you don't miss mail about
> the one thing you care about requires ongoing manual effort (both to
> at least glance at each message and to tune your filters).  I don't
> know about you, but I find that I waste a lot of time with giant lists
> like opensolaris-code.
>
> project-announce is, I think, the perfect example of a focused list -
> it carries project announcements, all of them, and nothing else.
> People looking for something to get involved with now have an
> excellent resource.  But opensolaris-announce has been all over the
> place - let's look at this month's topics:
>
>    * [osol-announce] SXCE Build 65 available
>    * [osol-announce] Sun Studio 12 - Now Available!
>    * [osol-announce] Sun Studio Express 6/07 with Project D-Light
>    * [osol-announce] May 2007 Newsletter
>    * [osol-announce] France OpenSolaris Portal Opens
>    * [osol-announce] new Sun Contributor Agreement
>    * [osol-announce] New community group creation process
>    * [osol-announce] Live Media project adds installer
>    * [osol-announce] Linux Kernel compiled with Nexenta and it boots!
>    * [osol-announce] Indiana mailing list is live!
>    * [osol-announce] ON b66 delivered, and delivery changes
>    * [osol-announce] Project Virtual Network Machine is Live now
>    * [osol-announce] SAM/QFS Opensolaris project page live
>    * [osol-announce] FROSUG June Meeting Announcement (6/28/2007)
>    * [osol-announce] Project Instantiation Process
>    * [osol-announce] Open Sound System source code released under GPL/CDDL
>    * [osol-announce] SXCE 66 is available
>    * [osol-announce] advocacy-discuss list is live
>
> Of the 18 topics, only 3 (new SCA, CG creation process, project
> instantiation), possibly at most 4 (Advocacy CG - not list -
> formation), of these are actually of global interest.  SXCE deliveries
> probably warrant a separate list (if Indiana's a project, why isn't
> Solaris 11?), as do ON deliveries.  Studio is of interest to the Tools
> CG, and could be linked from consolidations using it.  The rest of the
> announcements are project-specific and should be sent to one of the
> project's interest lists and/or lists belonging to the sponsoring
> CG(s).  It certainly makes no sense to tell a group of tens of
> thousands of extremely diverse participants about a meeting of a user
> group in Colorado or that a certain project now offers an installer.
>
> There's one exception there - the May newsletter.  Many
> very-low-traffic lists have an automatic monthly message that provides
> information about the list's purpose, how to unsubscribe, and a large
> collection of links to related general information (such as the latest
> newsletter, the archives, where to find information on one's favourite
> distribution, and so on).  This would seem like a good strategy for
> this list as well.
>
> -- 
> Keith M Wesolowski		"Sir, we're surrounded!"
> FishWorks			"Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
>