<div dir="ltr">I personally think a tag in the subject would work better. I receive hundreds of ubuntu and debian emails each week, so it's hard to know what ones are actually relevant, so another mailing list wouldn't really help in that case. And tags should be just as good for looking up the email in the logs.</div> <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Pasi Lallinaho <<a href="mailto:pasi@shimmerproject.org" target="_blank">pasi@shimmerproject.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello there, during the meeting today [1] there was some discussion to set up a new, low-traffic, high-importance list for the Xubuntu team. Only team members could post to the list, but everybody could subscribe to read the list. Topics and tasks for the list would include: * Voting on project-related questions (currently done during the meetings) * Announcing meeting minutes and monthly team reports * Calls for testing, or request for other input * Other important project announcements Some of the pros of setting up this new list include: * The team is currently heavily organized in IRC, moving more of the important communication to a low-traffic mailing list could make contributing less exclusive * A low traffic list would be easier to read for the team members as well as other people digging up decicions and important milestones later There are some potential caveats to the new list: * Subject/topic partly overlaps with the current developer list * Not allowing people who aren't team members could make the list seem exclusive (though commenting on issues would still be possible on the development list) Alternative options include: * Start using a speficic "tag" for the aforementioned communication (and possibly automoderate non-team members' posts with that tag) * Increase the strictness of the moderation in the developer list to make it lower traffic and more relevant (con: probably affects list atmosphere and makes the thresold to post too(?) high) I hope we can get all the issues raised before the next meeting, and that everybody would have some kind of opinion before the next meeting in two weeks. Start discussing! Cheers, Pasi [1] <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings/Archive/Minutes/2014-04-24" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings/Archive/Minutes/2014-04-24</a> -- Pasi Lallinaho (knome) » <a href="http://open.knome.fi/" target="_blank">http://open.knome.fi/</a> Leader of the Shimmer Project » <a href="http://shimmerproject.org/" target="_blank">http://shimmerproject.org/</a> Ubuntu member, Xubuntu team member » <a href="http://xubuntu.org/" target="_blank">http://xubuntu.org/</a> -- xubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div> </div>