Hi Dave, At 2024-10-18T10:54:47-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 8:53 PM G. Branden Robinson > <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Where _is_ that interface? > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/admin/groff (with similar URL for > bug-groff and (I presume though have never checked) groff-commit)
Ah. I'd never seen that before, and this URL was not in the GNU "welcome aboard" email. Whoops! (The mail did link to <https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Mail.html>, but the material there doesn't note it either.) > If you don't have the password, I'll send it off-list. I sure don't. Please go ahead. > > The "new GNU maintainer" email I got last month was gigantic but > > didn't mention this. > > Maybe list administration is considered a separate task from project > maintainership? Still, even if so, the email should explicitly say > so. Sounds like someone will be sending them some documentation > updates. ;-) Not sure I have the spoons for that. > The above URL does say "groff list run by wl at gnu.org," either an > indication that it is a separate role, or that Bertrand was also never > given this information and so never updated the contact address. I believe Werner is still a (or the) moderator of the lists, and I'm not inclined to change that. In fact, while I'll probably add myself as a list admin for i-dotting purposes, I am more than content to preserve the moderation status quo in terms of who does it. I _produce_ too much mail traffic to want to also have a responsibility for screening what actually gets to the lists, at least in terms of discussion threads. The exception being, of course, to apply a blanket policy of truly having bug-groff and groff-commit be reflectors only. Whether we can automatically redirect non-Savannah mails to those lists to groff@ instead, or whether such mails have to go through moderation, is something I guess I will find out. I'll repeat given the Subject: change that the GNU onboarding team encouraged me to create a new "info-groff" list for announcements. I would expect this to be moderated as well, but to have a pretty generous acceptance policy for things that are actually announcements of software releases. (If/when I get around to that, I plan to ask the existing moderators for our other lists if they're willing to take that one on too since the marginal effort of doing so would be near zero.) For instance, new groff releases and release candidates would be announced on info-groff (as well as info-gnu for the former and platform-testers for the latter), but messages like Robin Haberkorn's a few days ago[1] also would be topical. Regards, Branden [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2024-10/msg00112.html
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