Just in case you want some background:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_talk:New_contributors#How_to_solve_Notifications_here_and_now_26058

The specific discussion about the name and scope of the list happened through a couple of emails withing the ECT team.

Such a list has already been created: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce
It never saw activity because it's practically (if not ideally) a duplicate of wikitech-ambassadors, so you can easily take control of it.
I suggest to close this.

Thehelpfulonewiki wrote:

You're right that "people won't want another mailing list for this" was my first thought! See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Overview#MediaWiki for a list of mailing lists associated with MediaWiki. There's also https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Overview#General_development_and_technical_discussion.

Amir brought up a point on that MediaWiki.org discussion page that you linked to, we also have "wikitech-ambassadors" and "wikitech-announce".

I'm sorry that I may be missing the point - please could you explain what messages would be sent on this new list that wouldn't fit under one of the other lists?

wikitech-announce fits the bill. Sorry I had missed it myself.

Add me as admin and I will repurpose it.

Does the alias idea make sense to you?

Thehelpfulonewiki wrote:

(In reply to comment #4)

wikitech-announce fits the bill. Sorry I had missed it myself.

No problem at all.

Add me as admin and I will repurpose it.

Sure, I'll send you an email with the list admin password.

Does the alias idea make sense to you?

So if I understand correctly you want wikitech-announce@wikimedia.org be an alias for wikitech-announce@lists.wikimedia.org? I'd imagine it's do-able by ops, but whether they'd *want* to do it is a different matter - we used to have mailing lists on the @wikipedia.org domain and moved them to the @lists.wikimedia.org a long time ago.

Ok, we can forget about the alias.

Still, how could we sync wikitech-anounce with wikitech-l and wikitech-ambassadors? The idea is that a post from wikitech-announce would be automatically distributed to the other two lists.

(In reply to comment #5)

I'd imagine it's do-able by ops, but whether they'd *want* to do it is a
different matter [...].

For what it's worth, I don't think this requires ops. I think OTRS admins can make new e-mail addresses. Or so I'm told. Or you could just have the Wikimedia Foundation office IT person do it, if necessary.

(In reply to comment #6)

Still, how could we sync wikitech-anounce with wikitech-l and
wikitech-ambassadors? The idea is that a post from wikitech-announce would be
automatically distributed to the other two lists.

A few different ways (one of which would be just e-mailing all three addresses, another of which would be setting up a mail group [client-side or server-side]). However, this bug has a very amorphous target that seems to be on the move.

Given the bug subject, comment 0, and comment 4, I'm marking this bug as resolved/fixed.