Re: [Evolution] Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 18:26 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-10-20 at 13:09 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
> > After the deadline of the end of October Mailman archives will
> > remain
> > alive in read only mode for posterity. If the mailing list was used
> > behind an alias, please let me know so we can re-do the same setup
> > but on Discourse instead.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > P.S All the l10n lists are still pending code changes in damned-
> > lies,
> > the deadline to decommission those lists may slip by a week or two
> > depending how soon those changes will be made available in DL
> > codebase
>
>         Hi,
> I just asked Andrea to keep the evolution-list running a bit longer.
> It's currently postponed to the mid of the November. It gives roughly
> two more weeks to decide where to go, if anywhere.
>
> My personal opinion is to use a free mailing list service. Expecting
> there will be people not moving to the new location, thus the
> location
> will not turn from free to a paid service is not ideal. It's better
> to
> stay on the safe side, to avoid another move elsewhere in the near or
> far future.

I agree.

> I suggested the two places where other similar/related projects to
> the
> Evolution already have their mailing lists. It might make sense to be
> nearby to them, from my point of view. Neither of those projects are
> developed under the GNOME umbrella, though.
Agreed again.

> I do not know what conditions the freedesktop.org [1] or the
> infradead.org [2] have to accept a new mailing list. It's to be
> discovered by the list admins, if they/you/we agree on any of these
> services. Or other services. When it comes to it, the old good
> SourceForge supports mailing lists as well.
>
> I do not mind that much, as long as no money is involved. I do not
> think it would be fair to ask any money from the volunteers. Invest
> your wisdom, rather than bugs.

Can you ask them? Probably better not to have several people asking the
same questions. We'd also need to know if they support migrating the
current list membership. I think it would help if they could also host
the archive, simply to avoid having it split between two sites, before
and after the change.

poc