-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christian Theune wrote: > Hi, > > Martijn Faassen schrieb: >> Christian Zagrodnick wrote: >>> On 2008-02-18 11:20:05 +0100, Christian Theune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> >>>> Launchpad started the beta tests for their mailing list offers. A >>>> while ago we discussed this option for future hosting of the mailing >>>> lists. >>>> >>>> The current implementation has the restriction that the mailing lists >>>> can not be hosted using custom domains (@zope.org). >>> IMHO when migrating mailing lists the addresses should not change. >> I agree. I'm all for outsourcing the hosting of our mailing list, but I >> think it'd be a bad idea to change all the email addresses. It'll break >> people's settings, possibly break various archives, and so on. I think >> you should let them know that this this is important for us. > > I'll update them to say we'll wait until we can use our own domain.
Can somebody please actually make the case for this, before we decide? Here are a couple of things I don't know about the plan: - What ongoing costs (bandwidth, mostly) are we incurring (covered by ZC, probably) to run the mailman out of our own hardware. - Will existing administrators and moderators be able to continue working with lists as easily as currently (preferably, they shouldn't even notice the change). - Will any URLs (list archives, info pages, whatever) break? - Will we be able to create new lists as easily (or more) as we can now? - What will the "switching costs" be in both directions? - Are there other advantages we should consider? All this derives from my sense that moving our issue collectors to Launchpad has been only a very minor win: - Mail-in resoponses are the best feature. - The Launchpad folks have added the 'full transcript" feature we requested. - However, thg content is no longer "ours" in terms of URL space. - We are subject to maintenance windoes which are not under our control (having the content go offline completely for hours at a pop, without even degrading to a read-only copy, is a pretty big lose). - The "switching cost" problem is still not solved for the collectors, either, Note that I'm not bashing the choice to move the collectors: I do want us to think harder about going further down that path, however. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHwa2c+gerLs4ltQ4RAs5vAJ9GL24YWK0d6pGgcoMKJSHhGh0SZgCeO5pW pxJNpbkiclANTUaEECHMknw= =dbEs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )