[Cryptech Core] Mailing lists and charters

[Leif Johansson]

On 2014-02-05 10:37, Joachim Strömbergson wrote:
> Aloha!
>
> I've had a few discussions with LinusN regarding the different mailing
> lists (and we have also had a few discussions on the mailing lists too).
>
> The lists and short charter are described here:
> https://cryptech.is/wiki/MailingLists
>
> Right now we have four lists:
>
> * announce
> * tech
> * core
> * org
>
> @announce is pretty easy to understand. Releases, Vulnerabilties etc.
>
> @tech is the where the technical discussions about the stuff we are
> developing. Also pretty easy.
>
> @org is about financing and administration. Does that include system
> administration issues such as (for example) git repo problems?
>

I don't think it should

> And then we have @core. From experience in FreeBSD I can understand
> having a core team list with a smaller (and controlled) number of
> participants where strategic discussions can be handled among the
> project principals. But I (and Linus) are a bit afraid that we risk
> creating a "we vs them"-situation with this separation. We want to be
> open and inclusionary. Both as a way of getting interest and support,
> but also to build trust.
>
> I (we) therefore have a bit of a problem understanding the separation of
> discussions in @core with discussions in @tech and to some extent
> discussions in @org.
>
> Do we really need @core? What purpose does it solve and can those
> problems be handled in other ways?
>
> And regarding sysadmin issues - are they part of the "admin" charter for
> @org? To me they may be so. It os not as if the list is swamped with
> mails. OTOH having an open maillist for sysadmin things might be good.
>
> My suggestion is to merge @core and @org (into @org). And possibly
> update charter for @org to clarify what admin means.
>
>
> (I have issues regarding the git repo that may be well worth discussion
> among more persons than me and Linus and Rob. But I am sort of stuck on
> where to send them.)
>
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