From 5b96dd2359d209883e8929099a3942d69b14b234 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jieyou Xu Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025 14:46:53 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Meta-announce infra announcement zulip channel --- .../infra-announcement-zulip-channel.md | 57 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/inside-rust/infra-announcement-zulip-channel.md diff --git a/content/inside-rust/infra-announcement-zulip-channel.md b/content/inside-rust/infra-announcement-zulip-channel.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e1779c4e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/inside-rust/infra-announcement-zulip-channel.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ ++++ +path = "inside-rust/2025/10/02/infra-announcement-zulip-channel" +title = "Infrastructure announcement zulip channel" +authors = ["Jieyou Xu"] + +[extra] +team = "the Infrastructure Team" +team_url = "https://rust-lang.org/governance/teams/infra/#team-infra" ++++ + +The [Infrastructure Team][infra-team] is working on improving communication for +project infrastructure changes that may impact project team members and [Dev +Desktop][dev-desktop] users. + +We intend to create a new **low traffic** Zulip channel, +[`#infra/announcements`], dedicated to infrastructure change announcements. +Examples of announcement topics may include, but are not limited to: + +- Commissioning/decommissioning of [Dev Desktops][dev-desktop] +- Significant CI changes +- Significant permission changes +- Significant prolonged outages of infrastructure services +- ... and other significant events which the Infrastructure Team anticipates may + impact project members. + +Transient outages will _not_ be included in this announcement channel to +maintain a high signal-to-noise ratio of this announcement channel. + +We will subscribe: + +- All project team members +- `gsoc-contributors`, `ospp-contributors` and `cloud-compute` marker team + members + +with registered Zulip IDs[^team-repo] to a dedicated [`#infra/announcements` +zulip channel][`#infra/announcements`].[^mute] + +For project team members without registered Zulip IDs, you are encouraged to do +so by updating your `people/.toml` entry in the [rust-lang/team] +repository so that the Infrastructure Team can consistently announce project +infrastructure changes that may impact you. + + +[^team-repo]: In the [rust-lang/team] repo. If your `people/.toml` entry + does not already have a `zulip-id` field, you can send a PR against the + [rust-lang/team] repo to update your `people/` entry with your Zulip ID. +[^mute]: Note that you can mute specific tops that do not concern you + specifically. We adopted this "blanket" announce approach because in our + experience, not reaching impacted project team members and [Dev + Desktop][dev-desktop] user is significantly more problematic. + + +[infra-team]: https://rust-lang.org/governance/teams/infra/#team-infra +[dev-desktop]: https://forge.rust-lang.org/infra/docs/dev-desktop.html +[rust-lang/team]: https://github.com/rust-lang/team +[`#infra/announcements`]: + https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/533458-t-infra.2Fannouncements