Merge pull request #1711 from jieyouxu/infra-announcement

Author: jieyouxu

content/inside-rust/infra-announcement-zulip-channel.md

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+path = "inside-rust/2025/11/16/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"
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+
+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 are creating 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 posted to 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 to the 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/<handle>.toml` entry in the [rust-lang/team]
+repository so that the Infrastructure Team can consistently announce project
+infrastructure changes that may impact you. 
+
+[^mute]: Note that you can mute specific topics 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] users 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