On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A quick summary of where we are, in case you haven't been following >> the previous threads. >> >> Information on the top 100 legacy mailing lists is on the wiki [1]. >> A draft note that will be sent to these lists is an another page [2]. >> >> If you note in that first page, the "Migration Owner" column is blank. >> So either I need to quickly learn French, Dutch and Japanese, or I >> need some help here. >> >> Volunteers would translate the note, send it to the relevant NL lists, >> and be available on those lists to answer any migration-related >> questions. Ideally you would already be a participant on the lists >> and familiar to that community. >> >> As for staging, I'd recommend that we do not do this all at once. >> Migrating 100 lists at once would be very messy. But we can easily >> break this down into related groups of lists and do the migration over >> a few weeks. One possible staging would be: >> >> 1) All the lists that will be merged into the new ooo-marketing list. >> This will help jump start that lists important work, and bring >> community members into the discussion who might not have been >> interested in the other topics we've been discussing on ooo-dev. >> >> 2) All of the lists that will be merged into ooo-dev >> >> 3) All of the lists that will be merged into ooo-users >> >> 4) NL lists (which could be done in parallel with the above. However, >> they will require some discussion and admin work to create new >> ooo-lang lists,) >> >> The thought behind this staging is that we "work out the kinks" with >> the more technical and (hopefully) more forgiving project lists, >> before moving on to the user and NL lists. We can adjust the >> instructions and messaging based on what we learn from the initial >> migrations. >> >> Regards, >> >> -Rob >> >> > Have the "new" NL lists been setup already? I may have missed that and I > haven't look at any jira tix. >
No NL lists yet, except for Japanese. We need moderator volunteers before we can request them. Process for getting a new mailing list created is here: http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html#new-mailing-list Probably makes sense to start with the largest NL communities first? > >> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Mailing+lists >> [2] >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Email+Migration+Post >> > > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "This is no social crisis > Just another tricky day for you." > -- "Tricky Day", the Who >
