+1 Additionally it might make sense to write a paragraph somewhere on suggestions for best practice on mailing the list (like including components / languages in use in the title or the body of the e-mail :-) ).
-- Rob On 30 March 2016 at 11:25, Robbie Gemmell <rob...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello folks, > > Many moons ago, a seperate mailing list was established for Proton, > back when it was purely a protocol engine other components would use. > Its scope has since expanded beyond that and the separate mailing list > has I feel been an increasing source of confusion and hassle of late > more than anything else. Collapsing it into the other larger existing > lists we have (that the traffic would otherwise have been on) seems to > me like it would be an improvement across the board, and as such I > have called this vote. > > I would propose that discussion (such as this) would head to the > users@q.a.o list to join the similar/related/duplicate traffic already > present, with remaining things going to the dev@q.a.o list as > consistent with that list (e.g JIRA, GitHub integration mails, > ReviewBoard, though the latter was never actually directed to proton@ > to begin with..). > > Whilst redirecting JIRA etc emails should be easy enough (has been > done before), I dont know what the precise options are regarding > existing mail subscriptions to the list. There are significantly more > subscribers to users@ than proton@, and many are duplicates, but some > are not. I'd need to discuss options with infra, but first things > first, the vote. > > I have gone straight to a vote on this because I feel this has already > been discussed enough previously over time that many people will have > already thought about it enough to quickly vote one way or the other, > and it is past time to act on it if things head that way. Obviously > things can be further discusssed at this point also if desired. > > Note that both users@ and proton@ are in the recipients. I expect the > thread will splinter when someone forgets to reply-all, as almost all > cross-posted thread on the lists do, but at least it can start on both > for visibility to all. > > Robbie >