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

[Thomas Haller <thaller redhat com>]

On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 23:16 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 9:29 PM Thomas Haller <thaller redhat com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think that "we" (the NetworkManager community) will try to get a
> > mailman mailing list on freedesktop.org. There is already
> > modemmanager-devel lists freedesktop org, so this seems a good fit.
> > Our
> > git is also on gitlab.freedesktop.org.
>
>
> That's unfortunate to hear, would you mind elaborating more on what
> made you decide not to migrate to Discourse?

Just personal preference (of myself and others). 

While I wish that mailman would have some improvements, overall it's
suitable for our needs. It served us well. I probably just don't know
what I am missing out, but I still don't see it.

NetworkManager historically is both a GNOME and a freedesktop project
(we use gitlab.freedesktop.org, while applet and VPN plugins are on
gitlab.gnome.org). Having a freedesktop mailing list would fit the
project too. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't know where else to
migrate and would stronger consider discourse.


On a side note, it's not a big problem... But I don't understand the
urgency of sending an announcment and shutting the list down
(basically) immediately afterwards. A longer grace period would have
been better. I was ignorant of these plans. That ignorance is my fault,
but a simple email to the list would have helped.

> > It's also unclear whether we should try to automatically subscribe
> > the
> > current list subscribers to the new place. I think we should do
> > that.
> >
> > Opinions?
>
>
> We can provide you the subscribers list if the decision you want to
> pursue is subscribing existing list members on the new hosting
> platform.

that would be great. Thank you. I probably will come back to you about
this.

As GNOME plans to leave the archive up as read-only, that's sufficient.
But I am worried that on a few years that will be shut down and the
history lost. If that ever happens, we should try to archive the
history somewhere. Would it be possible to get a dump of the entire
archive?



Thomas