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Date:         Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:13:56 +0100
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From: Joseph Wright <joseph.wright@MORNINGSTAR2.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Managing/tracking module prefixes
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On 26/09/2012 12:38, Lars Hellström wrote:
> I'd suggest that you initially set up a dedicated e-mail address which
> redirects to LATEX-L.
> 
> The rationale for the latter is that in order to establish a convention,
> it is seldom sufficient to just post the rules and set up the
> administrative machinery; one must also raise communal awareness of the
> convention. One of the most effective ways of doing this is to let
> members of the community observe how others are following the
> convention, but that won't happen if traffic goes to a list only seen by
> team members.
> 
> The point of having a dedicated email address is that if it later turns
> out that LATEX-L is getting flooded by this (IMHO unlikely, especially
> in view of how much LATEX-L traffic historically varies anyway) then you
> can change the forward to the team list. Or alternatively switch to some
> manner of digest format. Having a separate email address also simplifies
> regularising the postings before forwarding them, e.g. using a specific
> Subject heading to make it easier to search for these messages later.
> 
> Lars Hellström

All sounds reasonable, with the only issue being I don't actually have
the ability to do anything about it :-) (I'll need to talk to Rainer).

Assuming it is feasible, what would be a sensible address? My first
thought is

  modules@latex-project.org

or

  module-prefixes@latex-project.org

An alternative would be to go with the plan that messages are sent to
the team list (which already exists), and that we (I) post a formalised
message to LaTeX-L before adding to the master list, in a similar way to
how CTAN 'new package' announcements are made. Something like

  *Subject* Module prefix registration: X

  The LaTeX3 module prefix X was registered on <date> with the
  following details.

  Module name: ...
   ...

The downside here is that the team (or at least some of us) get the
messages twice. I think that's probably survivable :-)
-- 
Joseph Wright