On Mon, 15 May 2017, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:41:09AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > On Mon, 15 May 2017, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 09:13:11AM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > > Nice to have: > > > (snip) > > > > - Mailinglists > > > > > > I've always thought it a bit weird, unfortunate (and possibly a > > > historical accident) > > > that we have lists.debian.org and lists.alioth.debian.org. Could this be > > > an opportunity > > > to move to one Debian mailing list service? > > I don't think so (speaking as listmaster and alioth admin). Our lists.d.o is > > not really suited as a self-service. Where I would be open to the creation > > of > > important lists, I am not so happy on the other side about having a few > > hundred new lists on alioth. > > > > Our list setup is pretty special and I don't think we will ever be able to > > move to something else (and there are not many alternatives. Mailman 3 is > > not > > really an option). > > What options do we have? Not much, Mailman, Sympa. Thats more or less all. Everything is either dead or is not flexible enough.
> Which requirements are important for the successor of current > lists.alioth.d.o? Collecting all those requirements would be a bunch of work. And we don't plan to move away from our working list system. It is fine as it is, just not suited as a public service. Alex