MailingLists

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General

Guidelines for the use of mailing lists can be found at http://www.ubuntu.com/community/lists/etiquette

List of Lists

A comprehensive list of Ubuntu mailing lists and their target audience can be found at lists.ubuntu.com.

Moderating Mailing lists

If you are moderator of an Ubuntu mailing list, you might want to have a look at listadmin. It's a great tool that makes you more effective. Daniel Holbach wrote a little howto about it.

Requesting a list

DRAFT

As you can see at lists.ubuntu.com there's a plethora of mailing lists already. When you are just about to request yet another one, please consider the following:

  • If your project is only loosely connected to Ubuntu and your team is using Launchpad anyway, a Launchpad mailing list might be more appropriate.

  • If you are setting up a local team of a few enthusiasts, try using a bigger list before creating yet another mailing list that languishes around because of being under-used. One good way to indicate to do this is to add some kind of title to the mail subject, ie: 

    Subject: [City X] Meeting next week
To: ubuntu-country-y@lists.ubuntu.com
    This way you'll find out how much demand there is and if the team is sustainable.
  • Same goes for development projects: if you intend your new mailing list to just cover parts of what is discussed on a bigger list, make sure that there's enough demand and the topics you want to cover are going to stay of interest.

If you read the above and feel you made sufficiently sure there's enough demand, submit a GPG signed request to rt@ubuntu.com with the following information:

  • suggested mailing list, make sure it's clear if it's a LoCo list or not

  • intended audience (mention people you know who are interested in that list)
  • some kind of documentation that you tried having this kind of conversations somewhere else before