[ML Migration] group name for new k-dev mailing list

[parispittman]

umbrella #5877

TIMEBOX ON VOTE: Tuesday, Dec 14th 1pm PT

this warrants a separate issue so we can poll/vote/decide on the naming convention for the upcoming mailing list migration from kubernetes-dev@googlegroups to [email protected]

purpose of the group:
news and events closest to the source; the contributors and owners

options - please use emoji reactions per option for your vote:

1- [email protected] (short version of [email protected]; popular oss method of <project-dev@>) 🚀
2- upstream@ (describing the where and not the who) 👀
3- builders@ (describing the who without community or contributors; see below) 😄
4- people@ (same as above) 🎉
5- [email protected] (keep it the same regardless of length or redundancy) ❤️
6- main@ (emoji react on the comment since we ran out of emojis) comment

FYI
contributors@ is taken as the 'official comms' email of the project when its needed
community@ (would need to be repurposed, sitting idly now and was an events point of contact for elections etc

[parispittman]

/sig contributor-experience

[nimbinatus]

what about builders@ ? Inclusive of folks who build docs, community, etc. as well as people doing engineering work.

[jberkus]

Vote here for dev@

The existing lists can't easily be repurposed.

projectname-dev@ is a common convention as the "first" mailing list for many OSS projects, so I believe that folks are used to it even if they aren't aware of what "dev" is short for.

"upstream", in my experience, is not a familiar term to a lot of people, particularly those for whom English is not their first language.

[pnbrown]

supporter@ ?

I also like builder

[sandipanpanda]

How about to appreciate and honor any and every type of contribution that people have made to the Kubernetes community so far, we name it [email protected]. ❤️

[justaugustus]

Maybe a bit of an internet colloquialism, but we are actively renaming a bunch of our default repo branches to it...
What about main@ ?

[mrbobbytables]

After thinking more about it, I'm still in favor of referring to it as 'dev'. Contributors or community would be my general go-to options, but those are taken by other community owned accounts. The other thought of discuss already references our end user forum. I think we're stretching it trying to find other terms. It's also the pattern we've asked people to follow when creating slack channels:

• <project>-users - for end user focused discussion
• <project>-dev - for contributor focused discussions

[Atharva-Shinde]

These are the names I came up with as I was thinking of names describing the purpose of the mailing list-

1. [email protected]
2. [email protected]

[tao12345666333]

How about called

• kube-daily@
• kube-here@

Because it will contain news and events and some other information.

[parispittman]

kubernetes/k8s.io#3217

[parispittman]

Thanks everyone for participating!
[email protected] it is

/close

[k8s-ci-robot]

@parispittman: Closing this issue.

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Thanks everyone for participating!
[email protected] it is

/close

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