Hello all, I have now merged the 92 emboss-dev subscribers into the main emboss list (previously 394 subscribers, now 443).
The emboss-dev list is now effectively closed (currently any messages require moderation, we can deliberately unsubscribe everyone if that is preferred). Peter On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 4:21 PM, Peter Cock <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Peter R, > > I will start the ball rolling on retiring the development list my > merging its subscribers to the main EMBOSS list. > > I am reasonably confident that the OBF backups include the > EMBOSS CVS records, but we will need to talk to Hilmar. > For Biopython we did the same thing, cvs to git in one go. > Let's continue that particular discussion off list? > > Regards, > > Peter C. > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 1:56 PM, Peter Rice <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear PeterC, >> >> Yes, that sounds fine. You can retire the emboss-announce and emboss-submit >> lists. >> >> By the way, my Imperial email address will vanish in the near future, so >> best to use my [email protected] address >> >> I would also like to pursue the migration to github. It was stalled by >> hoping for a chance to port the old CVS repository rather than starting >> again from scratch to preserve the crediting of previous contributors. >> >> Is there a copy available? >> >> regards, >> >> Peter >> >> >> On 17/01/2018 11:32, Peter Cock wrote: >>> >>> Dear Peter Rice (BCC'd) & the EMBOSS community, >>> >>> CC: OBF Board >>> >>> As you may have noticed, the OBF hosted mailman server >>> was having problems late last year: >>> >>> >>> https://news.open-bio.org/2017/11/12/mailing-list-outage-and-public-board-meeting-update/ >>> >>> With server changes made in January, mailman seems to >>> be coping for now. However, right now, any non-member >>> emails received are SILENTLY DISCARDED. >>> >>> The OBF is looking seriously at moving to a paid hosted >>> mailman instance to replace our volunteer administered >>> Amazon hosted mailman server. As part of this, we would >>> need to consolidate or close many of the existing lists: >>> >>> https://news.open-bio.org/2017/12/15/mailing-list-consolidation/ >>> >>> Currently there are five EMBOSS lists, >>> >>> EMBOSS – EMBOSS mailing list (archive) >>> emboss-announce – EMBOSS Announcements (Releases, etc.) (archive) >>> emboss-bug – EMBOSS Bug Reports and Support Requests (private archive) >>> emboss-dev – EMBOSS Development Discussion (Open to all) (archive) >>> emboss-submit – EMBOSS submissions – new packages and apps (private >>> archive) >>> >>> If there are no objections, we will close the emboss-dev list, >>> after migrating its current subscribers to the main emboss list: >>> >>> http://mailman.open-bio.org/pipermail/emboss-dev/ >>> http://mailman.open-bio.org/pipermail/emboss/ >>> >>> We are in the process of similar changes for the other OBF >>> hosted projects, for example I did Biopython last week: >>> >>> http://mailman.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython/2018-January/016339.html >>> >>> We would be happy to leave the announcement list running >>> for now, but it would likely be retired as part of any hosting >>> migration (likewise for all the other OBF project specific >>> announcement lists). >>> >>> The last two lists, emboss-bug and emboss-submit, seem >>> better suited to an issue tracker and GitHub (separately >>> we would like to help EMBOSS' move to GitHub). >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> (Speaking here as a representative of the OBF Board, >>> although I have been an occasional EMBOSS contributor too) >>> >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. >> http://www.avg.com >> _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
