On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> 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? > OK, thanks, I need to think about this...a good approach, etc. > > > > >> [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 > > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "This is no social crisis Just another tricky day for you." -- "Tricky Day", the Who
