Re: Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

2022-11-02 Thread Andrea Veri
As soon as the list has been archived (today, tomorrow) when a new email is
sent to the old list it'll bounce back, yes, we can add an alias to the new
location although I'm not a particular fan of landing aliases between lists
living on different infrastructures as it gives the idea the list has never
been retired and it's still alive although that is not true and that can
confuse participants in the long run. It's important wiki pages and other
references are updated to reflect this particular migration and former
members are invited (which you did already) to participate on the new list.





On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 11:15 AM Thomas Haller  wrote:

> On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 23:16 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
>
> Hi Andrea,
>
>
> It is done:
>
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2022-November/msg0.html
>
> I think the old list can be shut down. What will happen when sending an
> email to the old list? Will a bounce message be sent back? Can it link
> to the new place?
>
>
>
> > We can provide you the subscribers list if the decision you want to
> > pursue is subscribing existing list members on the new hosting
> > platform.
>
> the list admin can see the subscribers at
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/roster/networkmanager-list
> That was all that's needed. Invitations are sent.
>
>
>
> Thomas
>
>

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Re: Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

2022-10-27 Thread Andrea Veri
Paul,

that's surely something we could have done better there including sending
the per-list announcements earlier, in either case if a specific list
requires 2-3 more weeks to sort things out, that's fine, we're currently
waiting for a set of code changes in damned-lies and are accepting any
exceptions in case the migration to Discourse or to a different hosting is
still in the works.

Thanks,

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 4:47 PM Paul Smith  wrote:

> On Thu, 2022-10-27 at 11:49 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
> > The migration to Discourse has been in the discussion for years [1],
> > further actions were also communicated in August/September [2] and
> > [3]. Either way thanks for your feedback, we'll try to improve the
> > process next time anything like this happens.
>
> As has been stated before, I don't understand how anyone considered it
> sufficient to announce this ONLY on the desktop-devel list.
>
> There are thousands of people subscribed to individual lists for
> individual applications that have no interest in subscribing to a
> general list like "desktop-devel", but whose existing lists are still
> being shut down.
>
> It's clear, since an announcement was made last week that did it, that
> sending an email to all the lists was possible.  I don't understand why
> it wasn't done back when the decision was made.
>
>

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Re: Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

2022-10-27 Thread Andrea Veri
On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 8:56 AM Thomas Haller  wrote:

> On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 23:16 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 9:29 PM Thomas Haller 
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I think that "we" (the NetworkManager community) will try to get a
> > > mailman mailing list on freedesktop.org. There is already
> > > modemmanager-de...@lists.freedesktop.org, so this seems a good fit.
> > > Our
> > > git is also on gitlab.freedesktop.org.
> > >
> >
> >
> > That's unfortunate to hear, would you mind elaborating more on what
> > made you decide not to migrate to Discourse?
>
> Just personal preference (of myself and others).
>
> While I wish that mailman would have some improvements, overall it's
> suitable for our needs. It served us well. I probably just don't know
> what I am missing out, but I still don't see it.
>
> NetworkManager historically is both a GNOME and a freedesktop project
> (we use gitlab.freedesktop.org, while applet and VPN plugins are on
> gitlab.gnome.org). Having a freedesktop mailing list would fit the
> project too. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't know where else to
> migrate and would stronger consider discourse.
>
>
> On a side note, it's not a big problem... But I don't understand the
> urgency of sending an announcment and shutting the list down
> (basically) immediately afterwards. A longer grace period would have
> been better. I was ignorant of these plans. That ignorance is my fault,
> but a simple email to the list would have helped.
>

The migration to Discourse has been in the discussion for years [1],
further actions were also communicated in August/September [2] and [3].
Either way thanks for your feedback, we'll try to improve the process next
time anything like this happens.


> >
> > > It's also unclear whether we should try to automatically subscribe
> > > the
> > > current list subscribers to the new place. I think we should do
> > > that.
> > >
> > > Opinions?
> > >
> >
> >
> > We can provide you the subscribers list if the decision you want to
> > pursue is subscribing existing list members on the new hosting
> > platform.
>
> that would be great. Thank you. I probably will come back to you about
> this.
>
> As GNOME plans to leave the archive up as read-only, that's sufficient.
> But I am worried that on a few years that will be shut down and the
> history lost. If that ever happens, we should try to archive the
> history somewhere. Would it be possible to get a dump of the entire
> archive?
>

List archives are mainly composed of HTML files, I don't foresee any
particular reason on why the history of 20+ years of mails stored in a mail
archive would be shut down in the future, please don't worry about that.


[1]
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/common-questions-re-mailman-to-discourse/11841/9
[2]
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2022-August/msg4.html
[3]
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2022-September/msg00018.html

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Re: Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

2022-10-26 Thread Andrea Veri
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 9:29 PM Thomas Haller  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think that "we" (the NetworkManager community) will try to get a
> mailman mailing list on freedesktop.org. There is already
> modemmanager-de...@lists.freedesktop.org, so this seems a good fit. Our
> git is also on gitlab.freedesktop.org.
>

That's unfortunate to hear, would you mind elaborating more on what made
you decide not to migrate to Discourse?

It's also unclear whether we should try to automatically subscribe the
> current list subscribers to the new place. I think we should do that.
>
> Opinions?


We can provide you the subscribers list if the decision you want to pursue
is subscribing existing list members on the new hosting platform.

Thanks,

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Re: Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

2022-10-26 Thread Andrea Veri
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 9:10 PM Martin  wrote:

> Hi Andrea,
>
> I already have an account at discourse.gnome.org and I'm happy to
> receive emails from either Discourse or Mailman. Now I have two
> questions. Maybe you could point me to the right answer:
>
> 1. How do I subscribe "networkmanager"? Is it by "Watched" or by
>"Tracked" tags under notifications?
>
>
You actually go to https://discourse.gnome.org/tag/networkmanager, right
top corner where the ring bell is, then click on the notification
preference you want there :)



> 2. How do I open a new topic from my MUA? Esp. what is the correct
>syntax to set e.g. tag "networkmanager"?
>

The approach with Discourse is different: you can only create topics
against a particular category using your MUA, what happens after your post
is created is Discourse applies the tag automatically based on a specific
keyword that is present on either the subject or the body of your email. We
encourage any interested party to let us know what mapping they need so we
can land the automated tagging rule in place.

Thanks!

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Re: Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

2022-10-26 Thread Andrea Veri
Hi,

I’ve received several questions during the past days which possibly makes
sense to summarize in a single topic [1] which I can then reference.
Hopefully this specific post will help anyone looking for the same set of
answers as well. If any additional common question arises I’ll make sure to
add it to this same topic in Discourse.

Thanks and please let us know if you have any questions around Discourse or
your onboarding process!

[1]
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/common-questions-re-mailman-to-discourse/11841


On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 1:09 PM Andrea Veri  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As we have been communicating during the past few months GNOME's Mailman
> platform is being decommissioned (python2 deprecation, major burden in
> managing lists spam). The deadline is currently set to the end of October
> 2022. Mailing list subscribers are invited to migrate to GNOME's Discourse
> instance [1]. Neil made sure [2] to create a set of tags you can re-use to
> initiate a new topic in the new platform, if a tag is missing please reach
> out to me directly.
>
> Jehan (from the GIMP Team) kindly provided some instructions you can
> follow [3] in order to safely migrate your reading workflow to Discourse.
> The new platform supports several login methods including your GNOME
> Account and other major OpenID providers.
>
> After the deadline of the end of October Mailman archives will remain
> alive in read only mode for posterity. If the mailing list was used behind
> an alias, please let me know so we can re-do the same setup but on
> Discourse instead.
>
> Thanks,
>
> P.S All the l10n lists are still pending code changes in damned-lies, the
> deadline to decommission those lists may slip by a week or two depending
> how soon those changes will be made available in DL codebase
>
> [1] https://discourse.gnome.org
> [2]
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2022-September/msg00018.html
> [3]
> https://discourse.gnome.org/t/welcome-to-gimp-forum-on-gnome-discourse/11534/5
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Andrea
>
> Principal Systems Engineer at Red Hat,
> GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator,
> Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary,
> GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman
>
> Homepage: https://www.dragonsreach.it
>


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Announcement: this mailing list will be retired by the end of Oct 2022

2022-10-20 Thread Andrea Veri
Hi,

As we have been communicating during the past few months GNOME's Mailman
platform is being decommissioned (python2 deprecation, major burden in
managing lists spam). The deadline is currently set to the end of October
2022. Mailing list subscribers are invited to migrate to GNOME's Discourse
instance [1]. Neil made sure [2] to create a set of tags you can re-use to
initiate a new topic in the new platform, if a tag is missing please reach
out to me directly.

Jehan (from the GIMP Team) kindly provided some instructions you can follow
[3] in order to safely migrate your reading workflow to Discourse. The new
platform supports several login methods including your GNOME Account and
other major OpenID providers.

After the deadline of the end of October Mailman archives will remain alive
in read only mode for posterity. If the mailing list was used behind an
alias, please let me know so we can re-do the same setup but on Discourse
instead.

Thanks,

P.S All the l10n lists are still pending code changes in damned-lies, the
deadline to decommission those lists may slip by a week or two depending
how soon those changes will be made available in DL codebase

[1] https://discourse.gnome.org
[2]
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2022-September/msg00018.html
[3]
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/welcome-to-gimp-forum-on-gnome-discourse/11534/5

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