I think I would be happy if only podling graduations were sent an email. Why? Direct-to-TLP is not as interesting, as this is mostly a communications exercise anyway. It's more likely that dev@podling has more folks who are not insiders.
Let me give this patch a try. I'll base it on the existing congratulations on your new role. Craig > On Jul 21, 2017, at 4:08 PM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote: > > If it was a podling, sure: > > https://whimsy.apache.org/docs/api/ASF/Podling.html#method-i-dev_mail_list > > If it wasn't a podling previously, then perhaps not. > > - Sam Ruby > > > On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Craig Russell <[email protected]> wrote: >> subject: Congratulations to the new Apache project %project% >> to: %dev-list% >> reply-to: %dev-list% >> cc: board >> from: %secretary% >> body: At this month's Apache Board meeting, the board voted to approve >> %project% >> as a new Top Level Project with %chair% as PMC Chair. >> >> Best, >> >> %secretary% >> Secretary, Apache Software Foundation >> >> I think we already know what %project% and %chair% are. But can we calculate >> %dev-list%? >> >> Craig >> >>> On Jul 21, 2017, at 8:15 AM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Craig Russell <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Adjournment again. >>>> >>>> Change PMC chair resolutions result in sending Congratulations message. >>>> >>>> Would it be possible to change the email: >>>> >>>> to: new-chair1, new-chair2, ... new-chair3 >>>> cc: board, pmc1, pmc2, ... pmc3 >>>> >>>> For existing pmcs with a new chair, this acknowledges the new chair. >>>> >>>> For graduating pmcs, this acknowledges their graduation. >>>> >>>> Should we have a different message for the two cases? >>>> >>>> Should we have a congratulations on graduating from the incubator? >>> >>> Two complicating factors, both addressable with if checks on the >>> server and possibly new messages: >>> >>> 1) currently, the list is limited to, and the message focuses on, new >>> PMC chairs, i.e., people who are now chairs but previously were not >>> chairs of any other committee. >>> >>> 2) not all new committees are graduated podlings. Sometimes they form >>> via mitosis from an existing PMC. Other times the are simply new. >>> >>>> Craig >>>> >>>> Craig L Russell >>>> Secretary, Apache Software Foundation >>>> [email protected] http://db.apache.org/jdo >>> >>> - Sam Ruby >> >> Craig L Russell >> Secretary, Apache Software Foundation >> [email protected] http://db.apache.org/jdo >> Craig L Russell Secretary, Apache Software Foundation [email protected] http://db.apache.org/jdo
