It has been proposed (by me :-) that we actually set up a ticket tracker for keeping tabs on outages, with companion -notify and -discuss mailing lists, as below.
Opinions on this idea, and volunteers to set it up or host it are hereby (unofficially) solicited.
I am in support of this idea for the following reason: There has been a small history of what I will call marginally on topic. These discussions, though somewhat interesting, don't accomplish much more than to raise my--already heavy--email load. With a ticketing system and companion -notify list this would not be an issue. The valid scope of what belongs on the list is clearly a matter of consensus/opinion and will likely never be satisfactorily addressed for everyone. With a ticketing system, outages that are in-scope may be subscribed to, with discussion taking place in the comments while those that are out of scope are only a single notification and much less of a bother. Note: I'm familiar primarily with Bugzilla, but I can only assume that OTRS and RT have similar subscription/commenting features. Thanks, ~JasonG --