New OpenWrt mailing list for mirror-related announcements

[David Woodhouse]

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.

> Does that all make sense?  Is it possible?

Sure, I'm happy to set it up if we have consensus. 
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