Handing over ubuntu-qa to the Qatar loco team

Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com
Wed Oct 31 15:31:05 UTC 2012


The process should be complete. If your seeing this message, it means 
you made it and are migrated successfully :-) If someone can send back a 
message to confirm this to the list, that would be wonderful :-)

Nicholas

On 10/30/2012 12:16 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
> The process for this has begun -- I'll send an email once it's 
> complete and we've moved to #ubuntu-quality. Thanks for the feedback 
> everyone.
>
> Nicholas
>
> On 10/29/2012 04:43 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
>> Greetings everyone ;-)
>>
>> The Qatar loco team is starting up, which is wonderful to see ubuntu 
>> loco's continuing to spread. However, this means in order for the 
>> loco naming standard to continue, we must give up this mailing list 
>> name. Never fear, our archives and subscriptions will be migrated to 
>> the new list, but we need a new name.
>>
>> Since I happened to be at UDS with some of you, I took a moment to 
>> poll the room. The two immediate ideas are
>> ubuntu-quality and ubuntu-testing. Ubuntu-testing was an obvious 
>> choice to keep the naming conventions of the launchpad team and irc 
>> channel the same. That said I preferred, as did everyone else, 
>> ubuntu-quality. So given the time sensitive nature of the request (it 
>> needs to happen ASAP), I'll leave this message open for feedback 
>> overnight. Assuming no one has a convincing argument or complaint, 
>> we'll move forward with the change to ubuntu-quality for a mailing 
>> list name.
>>
>> This change will happen ASAP for the mailing list. Given the desire 
>> to keep things consistent, people seemed in agreement to undergo a 
>> full re-naming. This will require changing all of our documentation, 
>> migrating our IRC channel, migrating our launchpad team, etc, etc. 
>> Now taking volunteers for this effort :-p It won't be as bad as it 
>> sounds, but will require work and timing on our part to accomplish asap.
>>
>> Thanks everyone!
>>
>> Nicholas
>>
>
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