Hi Erik, I don't believe that [email protected] is a mailman list. The cf-metadata mailman list (which I administer at NCAR) is [email protected]. The LLNL server is the one that gets the github notifications and sends them to *mostly* the same people who are members of the mailman list. I say mostly because the membership in these lists is synchronized by hand. When people sign up or remove themselves from the mailman list, I send this information to Jeff Painter who then makes the changes at LLNL. We originally set things up like this so that people didn't need to sign up in two places to follow the discussions that were happening on the mailman list and on the trac server at LLNL. As github has replaced trac the current system was set up.
I personally would like to see all CF discussion happen on the github site. This would require people to have github accounts, but then I believe they would have much better control over the discussions they want to follow. As this discussion has revealed there is currently a lot of confusion about where cf-metadata messages are coming from. Brian On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 1:54 PM Erik Quaeghebeur < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Jeff, > > > > What can we do? The simplest is to stop the transmission from > > Github to the mailing list. If only a few people are bothered, > > I can take them off the LLNL list. I can make either of those > > changes in a few minutes, once we have a community consensus > > about what to do. More complicated would be to send some > > messages but not others to the mailing list. I might be able to > > do that, depending what criteria we need for choosing messages. > > The mailman interface lists an option that may indicate a flexible > solution: > > “Which topic categories would you like to subscribe to?” > > You can define a ‘Github’ topic that people can unsubscribe from (or > people > are not subscribed to by default). I do not know if and how you easily you > can auto-tag (or however it is done) messages from Github. (Once that > works, you may create more Github topics so that people can fine-tune what > they get from there through the list.) > > If this doesn't work, I am in favor of not sending Github messages to the > list, but asking interested people to ‘Watch’ the Github repo or selected > issues there. > > > Best, > > Erik >
