On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:22:34AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 01:57:31AM +0100, peter green wrote: > > > Just because a team isn't big or established doesn't mean they don't need > > > a place to discuss issues relating to their activities, some of which do > > > not relate to any one particular package. Contributers should be able to > > > self-organise within the project and for many dds email is their primary > > > means of communication. Sure you can just cc everyone involved but then > > > there is no archive and no way for new contributers to jump in. > > > > agreed. > > > > > I find the current proposal to drop alioth mailing lists without a real > > > replacement to be a major step backwards. > > > > fully agreed. > > > > However, I also fully understand and support the decision of those who want > > to > > maintain git.debian.org (or whatever the DNS name will be) in future, that > > they don't want to migrate+run lists.alioth.debian.org as well. > > > > So given all that, I would also applaud other people who want to keep > > lists.alioth.d.o running. (As one third of all binary packages in main > > currently use such an address in the maintainers or uploaders field… (*)) > > I am willing to step up to help keep lists.alioth.debian.org running > as a standalone service using mailman. It seems like it is yet to be > resolved whether this is a long-term strategic option, but this > thread demonstrates the many practical reason that we should aim to > maintain it beyond February 2018. Maintaining the current service > separated out from Alioth would, it appears, reduce the impact on the > project of the alioth switch-off considerably. The main requirements/ > issues seem to be: > > - retaining archives (ideally with consistent URLs) > - retaining the email addresses in many maintainer fields > - short-term uncertainty about replacements for certain use cases > > I have managed mailman installations for some time so I'm fairly familiar > with how it works, and have some time from November onwards to work on > this which I hope would be enough time to develop and implement a migration > plan. I'm CCing the alioth and DSA teams so they are aware of this. Do you have infrastructure for running it?
Alex
