Sounds great, thanks!

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Mike Kienenberger <mkien...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, it's been 10 days, so I'll assume lazy consensus for the rest of
> the velocity team.
>
>
> Our first step is to remove the mailing list information from our web
> site.  This is a good excuse to figure out how the web site is
> generated and published, so I'll take a look at this one, as I
> understand at least the second part.
>
>
> Our second step is send out a message and shut down the general@ list.
>
> How does this sound?
>
> ================
> Subject: Discontinuing general@velocity mailing list. Switch to
> user@velocity.
>
> Velocity community members:
>
> We are shutting down the gene...@velocity.apache.org mailing list as
> it duplicates the u...@velocity.apache.org mailing list and is not
> publicly mirrored elsewhere, unlike our other mailing lists on
> nabble.com or mail-archive.org.
>
> If you no longer wish to receive velocity-related information, or you
> are already subscribed to the u...@velocity.apache.org mailing list,
> no further action is required.
>
> If you are subscribed to gene...@velocity.apache.org but not
> subscribed to u...@velocity.apache.org, and you wish to continue to
> receive velocity-related messages, you will need to subscribe to
> u...@velocity.apache.org by sending an email to
> user-subscr...@velocity.apache.org to sign up (no subject or message
> body required) as described here:
>
>    http://velocity.apache.org/engine/devel/mail-lists.html
>
> Best regards,
> The Apache Velocity development team
>
> ================
>
>
> Our third and final step will be to open an INFRA ticket and ask that
> the general@ mailing list be removed.
>
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Nathan Bubna <nbu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > +1
> >
> > On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Frederick N. Brier <fnbr...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Sounds good to me :).
> >>
> >>
> >> On 05/30/2015 04:11 AM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
> >>
> >>> And while we're at it, why have a general@apache mailing list?
> >>> Something inherited from Jakarta?   It's not archived or publicly
> >>> visible on nabble or mail-archive.com.   Users have a difficult enough
> >>> time determining whether a posting should go to user@ and dev@.   I
> >>> see nothing that differentiates between general@ and user@.
> >>>
> >>> I propose we remove the mailing list from our mailing lists page, and
> >>> post a last message to general@ that we're shutting down general@ and
> >>> switching existing subscribers to user@, and include instructions on
> >>> how to unsubscribe from user@.  That's if we want to go opt-out.   Or
> >>> go with opt-in, and post a last message to general@ that we're
> >>> shutting down general@ and include instructions on how to subscribe to
> >>> user@.   Opt-in is probably the better approach.  Then we ask infra to
> >>> shut down the mailing list and optionally set up a redirect from
> >>> general@ to user@.
> >>>
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