Sounds great, thanks! On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Mike Kienenberger <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] mailing list as > it duplicates the [email protected] 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 [email protected] mailing list, > no further action is required. > > If you are subscribed to [email protected] but not > subscribed to [email protected], and you wish to continue to > receive velocity-related messages, you will need to subscribe to > [email protected] by sending an email to > [email protected] 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 > > > > On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Frederick N. Brier <[email protected]> > > 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@. > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >>> > >>> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
