Re: RFC: Hosting mailing lists of 3rd party projects

Hi!

2011/2/24 Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Excerpts from Selena Deckelmann's message of lun feb 21 20:49:35 -0300
>> 2011:
>>
>>> and make an announcement somewhere as they are created? If that's here
>>> (pgsql-www), fine.
>>
>> +1 on this.
>
> +1 on this too ... note that the only lists that I've created of late have
> been pugs related lists, as required by Selena (usually) ... I just figured
> there was a reason why nothing was announced publicly *shrug*

Cool! Then everyone agrees announcing new lists here is good.

I started a wiki page to document this discussion:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Mailing_List_Creation_Policies

>>> * Can we make it easier to change who is the mailing list
>>> administrator, or have a policy about who is the administrator for
>>> these lists? I'm guessing that this may change more frequently in the
>>> side projects than it does in the core pgsql lists.
>>
>> +1 on this.  Of course, we are not going to change admins for the core
>> mailing lists.
>
> 'k, what do you mean by 'change who is the mailing list admin'?  if you go
> to  http://mail.postgresql.org/mj/mj_wwwadm and login with your password,
> you can go under Configuration -> Passwords and add / remove administrators
> for those lists you are already an admin for ...

Hmm, maybe I just didn't know how to do that. I am the admin for lists
which I don't need to be part of, so I will try that and report back
if I can't make the change.

> ... I realize this was never mentioned before, but, honestly, nobody had
> ever asked about it either ... its something all list admins (from what I
> can tell from here) have access to ...

I asked a while back, but no big deal, Marc. :)  We'll sort it all out now.

I asked for the pgus-board list to be deactivated, but didn't
specifically CC Marc:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-www/2010-04/msg00017.php

My request for admin rights to be removed probably wasn't cc'd to the
list. But like I said, it's not a big deal, obviously, since I hadn't
bothered to ask about it since April. :)

I do think that non-core pgsql lists will require a little more
frequent management, but as long as more than just one person has the
ability to make changes or point people to the right places to
reconfigure things themselves, I think we'll be totally fine.

-selena


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