On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.schenk@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Rob Weir <robweir@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?
>
>> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Mailing+lists
>> [2]
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Email+Migration+Post
>>
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