[U-Boot-Users] RFC: mailing list transfer

[Grant Likely]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to get your general opinion about moving the
> "u-boot-users" mailing list away from SourceForge and host it on
> lists.denx.de instead.
>
>
> There is a couple of reasons for this: SourceForge has freuently been
> slow; there have been reports from many users  who  got  unsubscribed
> repeatedly  for  no  clear  reason; the mailing list archive at SF is
> painful to use; and, most of all, we have only limited ways to change
> the configuration, and with any other request we depend on the  mercy
> of SF support, which is, ummm, sloooow.
>
> Another reason is that this would make it easier for us to cross-link
> between messages on the mailing list and entries in the upcoming  bug
> and patch tracking system.
>
>
> If we have a majority agreeing with this change, I suggest to proceed
> as follows:
>
> * The new mailing list will be created as u-boot-users at lists.denx.de
> * The mailing list archive will be transferred from SF to DENX
> * The archive services (gmane etc.) will be notified about the change
> * All currently subscribed users and their settings will be
>  transferred from SF to DENX
> * After a cut-off date, all users are requested to use the new ML only
>  [that will be the complicated part].
> * The ML at SF will be set to read-only to make clear it is no longer
> * in use.
>
> Do you think this is a reasonable plan? Any hints, ideas, tips?

Yes...

but I'll take this opportunity to suggest that kernel.org hosting
might provide better support with far less effort... then again, I
don't need to maintain it, so I really shouldn't care.  :-)

g.

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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.