[openstack-community] Future of this mailing list

Jimmy McArthur jimmy at openstack.org
Wed Jun 9 21:43:13 UTC 2021


I think what Ashlee is saying is the list doesn't get use when events/user group meetups aren't happening. However, they use it as a single channel of communication for important Foundation messaging to those groups.

On Jun 9 2021, at 4:34 pm, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
> On 2021-06-09 16:01:44 -0500 (-0500), Ashlee Ferguson wrote:
> > Well, the reason there hasn’t been much interaction here is
> > because there haven’t been in-person events for over 9 months. I
> > realize it’s still limited during event cycles, but I think having
> > a ML specific to the community and User Group organizers is
> > important because of the heavy traffic on the discuss ML.
> [...]
>
> But is it actually reaching anyone? In the several months since I
> proposed folding this into openstack-discuss there was only one real
> response, and it was from you. Do we have reason to believe that the
> community and user group organizers are reading the messages here?
>
> And I agree, the mailing list name is a bit of honeypot for confused
> users looking for where to post questions about software. Maybe if
> we moved it to a less vague name and off of the openstack.org domain
> (the OpenInfra Summits haven't been OpenStack-only for a number of
> years now), that might help. I'm already planning to follow up with
> the OpenInfra Foundation staff on creating a lists.openinfra.dev
> listserv site and rerouting the existing foundation-oriented lists
> there, so if this one is also not OpenStack-specific then it
> probably fits into that same category.
> --
> Jeremy Stanley
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