Handing over ubuntu-qa to the Qatar loco team

Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com
Tue Oct 30 11:16:40 UTC 2012


The process for this has begun -- I'll send an email once it's complete 
and we've moved to #ubuntu-quality. Thanks for the feedback everyone.

Nicholas

On 10/29/2012 04:43 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
> Greetings everyone ;-)
>
> The Qatar loco team is starting up, which is wonderful to see ubuntu 
> loco's continuing to spread. However, this means in order for the loco 
> naming standard to continue, we must give up this mailing list name. 
> Never fear, our archives and subscriptions will be migrated to the new 
> list, but we need a new name.
>
> Since I happened to be at UDS with some of you, I took a moment to 
> poll the room. The two immediate ideas are
> ubuntu-quality and ubuntu-testing. Ubuntu-testing was an obvious 
> choice to keep the naming conventions of the launchpad team and irc 
> channel the same. That said I preferred, as did everyone else, 
> ubuntu-quality. So given the time sensitive nature of the request (it 
> needs to happen ASAP), I'll leave this message open for feedback 
> overnight. Assuming no one has a convincing argument or complaint, 
> we'll move forward with the change to ubuntu-quality for a mailing 
> list name.
>
> This change will happen ASAP for the mailing list. Given the desire to 
> keep things consistent, people seemed in agreement to undergo a full 
> re-naming. This will require changing all of our documentation, 
> migrating our IRC channel, migrating our launchpad team, etc, etc. Now 
> taking volunteers for this effort :-p It won't be as bad as it sounds, 
> but will require work and timing on our part to accomplish asap.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> Nicholas
>





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