+1 Two critical points Dave reminds us of,
- preservation of [email protected] - the tie-in with subscriptions to all manner of things (as was the case with the Bugzilla), but also wiki, forums, and mailing list subscriptions. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Fisher [mailto:[email protected]] <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201110.mbox/%[email protected]%3e> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 08:58 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Proposal] Shutting down legacy OOo mailing lists On Oct 17, 2011, at 8:45 AM, Rob Weir wrote: <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201110.mbox/%3cCAP-ksogDUcVt8+LOiKOqvDJ94Dp=vlo65gj9crrfplsop4-...@mail.gmail.com%3e> [ ... ] > Great. If we have a good statement on overall migration, we can > include that. Or if it is still "work in progress" I can link to a > wiki page where the latest info can be found. But there is no > technical requirement for us to figure everything out before we move > forward on independent pieces that we do understand. We've done that > already in other areas, like source code, issue tracking, and soon the > forums. And in general, it is to our benefit to move ahead with the > pieces we do understand, especially communications vehicles, so we're > not caught in a bad situation if the legacy servers unexpectedly > became unavailable. It is prudent to ensure that we have the main > means of communication solidly on Apache servers sooner rather than > later. It will certainly be a work in progress, the more the ML changes are put in the context of the total migration the better. [ ... ] > I'd be opposed to any automatic forwarding of list traffic or > indiscriminate transferring of subscriptions from the legacy lists. > Several of the legacy lists are are over-run by spammers. An earlier > poster said they get 80-120 moderation requests per day. We have a > good opportunity to "clean house" and to leave the spammers behind. Let's not forget that there are a number of people who make use of their @openoffice.org email address. We owe it to these people to give them some time to react if these are being dropped. There are also implications with BZ - at least in bug ownership and accounts. We've "bikeshedded" on these addresses, we now need a plan. If someone cares enough about openoffice.org personal email addresses we'll need volunteers to work out the details. Regards, Dave > >> >>> >>> -Rob >> >>
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