[General] Canonicalizing mailing list names

[Mikeal Rogers]

Whoops, +1 to #1 of the suggest mailing list changes.

On Feb 2, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:

> First off, +1 to the suggested mailing list changes.
>
> Maybe this is a good time for me to suggest that we have a chandler- 
> parcel-dev mailing list.
>
> I think that soon there will be more and more people coming in to  
> the community that wish to do parcel development but not core  
> chandler development and overloading them with mail may turn them  
> away.
>
> -Mikeal
>
> On Feb 2, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Ted Leung wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> At the moment, our mailing lists are named in a confusing  
>> fashion:  we have:
>>
>> 'dev' -> chandler development
>> 'cosmo' -> cosmo development
>> 'scooby' -> scooby development
>>
>> This is a historical artifact of the days when we only had one  
>> project -- and those days are long gone.  So I'd like to propose  
>> that we rename the mailing lists is a way that is more indicative  
>> of their purpose.   Here are two possible schemes:
>>
>> 1. all lists are <list>@osafoundation.org, and we prefix each list  
>> by the name of the project
>> dev -> chandler-dev at osafoundation.org
>> cosmo -> cosmo-dev at osafoundation.org
>> scooby -> scooby-dev at osafoundation.org
>>
>> When we need end-user mailing lists (and we will):
>>
>> chandler-user at osafoundation.org
>> cosmo-user at osafoundation.org
>> scooby-user at osafoundation.org
>>
>> general at osafoundation.org would remain the same.
>>
>> 2. all lists are list at project.osafoundation.org
>>
>> dev -> dev at chander.osafoundation.org
>> cosmo -> dev at cosmo.osafoundation.org
>> scooby -> dev at scooby.osafoundation.org
>>
>> the end user lists would be:
>>
>> user at chandler.osafoundation.org
>> user at cosmo.osafoundation.org
>> user at scooby.osafoundation.org
>>
>> general at osafoundation.org would remain the same.
>>
>>
>> ----
>> Ted Leung                 Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF)
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