Hi, we talked in the last meeting about the language lists. This requires a new layout (or rather _a_ layout because today we dont have guidelines about it) of the lists. We thought about it and came up with the following: We need to distinguish between 3 different variables in the mailinglists names: 1. project 2. topic 3. language This leads to the the following layout. For instance if you want to create mailinglists for the project <project> <project>@domain.tld -------------------- - General mailinglist about the project <project> in <default language> <project>-<language>@domain.tld ------------------------------- - General mailinglist about the project <project> in <language> <project>-announce@domain.tld ----------------------------- - Announce/News mailinglist for project <project> in <default language> <project>-announce-<language>@domain.tld ---------------------------------------- - Announce/News mailinglist for project in <language> <project>-users@domain.tld -------------------------- - Support mailinglist for the project <project> in <default language> <project>-users-<language>@domain.tld ------------------------------------- - Support mailinglist about the project <project> in <language> <project>-<topic>@domain.tld ---------------------------- - Mailinglist about the topic <topic> in the project <project> in <default language> <project>-<topic>-<language>@domain.tld --------------------------------------- - Mailinglist about the topic <topic> in the project <project> in <language> This would for instance mean for the openSUSE project: opensuse@opensuse.org - General in english opensuse-de@opensuse.org - Generl in german opensuse-announce@opensuse.org - Announce in english opensuse-announce@opensuse.org - Announce in german opensuse-users@opensuse.org - Support in english opensuse-users-de@opensuse.org - Support in german opensuse-factory@opensuse.org - Factory in english opensuse-factory-de@opensuse.org - Factory in german This layout scales pretty good. We need the <project> prefix because in the long run we are going to migrate everything that is on lists.suse.com to lists.opensuse.org. And we have other projects there, for instance taskjuggler or packet-writing. Mailinglists will get setup on request. Im not going to setup mailinglists with one or less subscribers. I need to think of an request mechanism but it will probably be a mail address. There is no hard requirement for a default language list but its very desirable. So for instance there shouldnt be a opensuse-foo-de@opensuse.org without a list opensuse-foo@opensuse.org But it might be that we cant avoid that in all cases. Comments? Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, Core Services "Rules change. The Game remains the same." - Omar (The Wire)