Last modified: 2013-04-17 06:47:25 UTC
The Engineering Community Team needs list for announcements of activities for tech contributors. We have discussed and agreed to call it tech-contributors-announce It should be moderated, with only approved email addresses allowed to post. I can be one of the administrators. It would be great to have an alias "tech-contributors-announce@wikimedia.org" without the "lists" to avoid any confusion: this won't work as a mailing list. Only in our discussion there was already a bit of confusion, with the spontaneous reaction "people don't want more mailing lists". If this part of the request is complex/senseless then just forget it. :) Thank you.
Just in case you want some background: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_talk:New_contributors#How_to_solve_Notifications_here_and_now_26058 The specific discussion about the name and scope of the list happened through a couple of emails withing the ECT team.
Such a list has already been created: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce It never saw activity because it's practically (if not ideally) a duplicate of wikitech-ambassadors, so you can easily take control of it. I suggest to close this.
You're right that "people won't want another mailing list for this" was my first thought! See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Overview#MediaWiki for a list of mailing lists associated with MediaWiki. There's also https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Overview#General_development_and_technical_discussion. Amir brought up a point on that MediaWiki.org discussion page that you linked to, we also have "wikitech-ambassadors" and "wikitech-announce". I'm sorry that I may be missing the point - please could you explain what messages would be sent on this new list that wouldn't fit under one of the other lists?
wikitech-announce fits the bill. Sorry I had missed it myself. Add me as admin and I will repurpose it. Does the alias idea make sense to you?
(In reply to comment #4) > wikitech-announce fits the bill. Sorry I had missed it myself. No problem at all. > Add me as admin and I will repurpose it. Sure, I'll send you an email with the list admin password. > Does the alias idea make sense to you? So if I understand correctly you want wikitech-announce@wikimedia.org be an alias for wikitech-announce@lists.wikimedia.org? I'd imagine it's do-able by ops, but whether they'd *want* to do it is a different matter - we used to have mailing lists on the @wikipedia.org domain and moved them to the @lists.wikimedia.org a long time ago.
Ok, we can forget about the alias. Still, how could we sync wikitech-anounce with wikitech-l and wikitech-ambassadors? The idea is that a post from wikitech-announce would be automatically distributed to the other two lists.
(In reply to comment #5) > I'd imagine it's do-able by ops, but whether they'd *want* to do it is a > different matter [...]. For what it's worth, I don't think this requires ops. I think OTRS admins can make new e-mail addresses. Or so I'm told. Or you could just have the Wikimedia Foundation office IT person do it, if necessary. (In reply to comment #6) > Still, how could we sync wikitech-anounce with wikitech-l and > wikitech-ambassadors? The idea is that a post from wikitech-announce would be > automatically distributed to the other two lists. A few different ways (one of which would be just e-mailing all three addresses, another of which would be setting up a mail group [client-side or server-side]). However, this bug has a very amorphous target that seems to be on the move. Given the bug subject, comment 0, and comment 4, I'm marking this bug as resolved/fixed.
