New OpenWrt mailing list for mirror-related announcements

[Baptiste Jonglez]

On 27-01-26, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2026-01-28 at 01:32 +0100, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Following the work to better formalize the role of mirrors, I would like
> > to open a new mailing list.
> > 
> > It would be similar to https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-announce
> > but focused on mirror operations, mostly to communicate important changes
> > that all mirror operators should be aware of (e.g. change of config, significant
> > additional data being added, old data being removed, etc)
> > 
> > I think this config would be good to have:
> > 
> > - name: "openwrt-mirror-announce"
> > - public list with archives
> > - anybody can subscribe
> > - however, only OpenWrt project should be able to write
> > 
> > About this last point: I anticipate that mirror operators might subscribe
> > an address associated to a ticket-system to the list.  This could quickly
> > degenerate because of auto-replies if the list is not moderated.
> > 
> 
> Any proper auto-reply should be fine because it'll have an empty sender
> (like a bounce message) and the lists don't accept those. And it should
> only reply to the sender address of the list, and *that* doesn't
> actually forward to the list either. They have to do at least two
> things wrong in their autoresponder to actually spam the list. And even
> if they manage to screw all that up, we can filter it out.

Oh, right, thanks.  For your second point, wouldn't From-munging and
auto-reply interact badly though?  As in, auto-replying to the list.

For reference, what is the config of openwrt-announce?  I always thought
it was moderated.

> > Does that all make sense?  Is it possible?
> 
> Sure, I'm happy to set it up if we have consensus. 

Yep, let's leave some time for discussion.

Thanks,
Baptiste
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