[Gdal-dev] Motion: Mailing List Changes

[Frank Warmerdam]

Motion:
  1) To create a gdal-announce at lists.osgeo.org mailing list which is moderated
     and only used for infrequent GDAL/OGR related announcements such as
     releases, major bugs, and other major events.

  2) To migrate the gdal-dev at lists.maptools.org mailing list to lists.osgeo.org
     in such a way to preserve existing members, and hopefully preserve
     settings.

  3) To create a gdal-commits at lists.osgeo.org mailing list which will be used
     for SVN commit messages once the SVN transition is complete.

  4) To appoint Frank Warmerdam as lists administrator for the GDAL/OGR mailing
     lists.

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Folks,

I think a gdal announcements lists is necessary.  The gdal-dev mailing list
is quite high traffic, and I think many users of GDAL who would like to keep
track of the project at a high level are not willing to subscribe to such
a high volume list.  This makes it hard to reach such users for review of
new releases, sponsorship, conference events and so forth.

I have explicitly not yet suggested a split into gdal-users and gdal-dev
though that might also be a reasonable action.

I think migration of gdal-dev to lists.osgeo.org should wait for a few
weeks to ensure the new lists management is stabilized, but after that I
think it helps make the affiliation with OSGeo clear.   It will hopefully
also upgrade us to the version of mailman which has the "discard all
pending email" option on the administrative page.  Currently it is very hard
to keep ahead of the administrative load reviewing spams, and emails from
unsubscribed users - many dozens of messages per day per list I manage.

Best regards,
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