Re: [Evolution] A reminder of a "plan B" mailing list

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2022-11-16 at 08:46 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-11-15 at 19:40 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> > At any moment now posting access to this mailing list can be
> > removed
> > without further warning, so once again I want to make you aware of
> > the alt-evolution mailing list, which is a "plan B".
>
>         Hi,
> what a nice coincidence. We are currently in the process of setting
> up
> the new list, poc may send a note about it, unless he'll consider
> this
> mine as a replacement.
>
> First of all, I've got a note from a GNOME admin that the lists will
> possibly shut down within 7 to 10 days since yesterday. There should
> be
> set up a new list meanwhile.
>
> While I've been very keen on the freedesktop.org hosting, we received
> a
> response from them that they do not intent to host any desktop
> applications in their mailing lists, thus this site is out of
> question.
>
> There is an ongoing work to setup the list under lists.osuosl.org,
> with
> a name evolution-users lists osuosl org . It's not done yet, there
> will
> be a separate email about it once it's done. This is a very fresh
> information, it happened roughly 9 hours ago (which is why I begun
> this
> email with "what a nice coincidence"). I guess the new name is fine,
> but if anyone has a better suggestion or an objection, then do not
> hesitate and express your opinion on it.
>
> I plan to update the user documentation and the Wiki page with the
> new
> official mailing list once the things are set up, though the users
> with
> an old/ancient Evolution, even the current online help, will still
> reference this list. There's not much I can do about it, I'm afraid.
>
> I'd like to thank poc, as he's leading this effort and he does all
> the
> paper work behind it.
>
> That being said: stay tuned, you'll be updated when the things are
> ready.

Yes, I was about to say much the same but you got in ahead of me Milan
:-)

Hopefully the new list will be ready to go in the next few days. We'll
make a separate announcement when that happens. Note that we've decided
not to automatically carry over subscriptions to the new list, i.e.
users will have to re-subscribe once the list is ready. This is mainly
to avoid objections about copying people's addresses and security
information to a new site.

We expect the current list to continue as part of the Gnome Discourse
system, but we aren't in control of that. This means that there will be
(at least) two lists going forward, which is unfortunate but
unavoidable.

Stay tuned.

poc