Re: Mailing list setup (RE: svn commit: r611570)

[Robert Burrell Donkin <ro...@gmail.com>]

On Jan 15, 2008 3:00 AM, Noel J. Bergman <no...@devtech.com> wrote:
> > The proposal should contain the rest of the information that needs
> > to be collected before the mailing lists can be set up. All mailing
> > lists for a project SHOULD use the project's host as the domain. In
> > particular, the domain for Incubator mailing lists MUST be
> > <code>incubator.apache.org</code>.
>
> This can be simplified, since it is for us, to:
>
> The proposal should contain the rest of the information that needs to be collected before the mailing lists can be set up.  The domain for all Incubator mailing lists MUST be <code>incubator.apache.org</code>.
>
> A typical project, which you later illustrate, would have three lists: -dev, -private, -commits.

added something along these lines to
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/mentor.html#request-mailing-lists

> NOTA BENE: any project that would deviate from the svn.a.o/repos/asf/incubator/${name} and ${name}-commits@i.a.o patterns would require special configuration in the asf-mailer file.  So *do NOT* deviate.

i've added this to
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html#template-mailing-lists
as well

feedback welcomed or just dive in and patch

- robert

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