[Alioth-staff-replacement] Mailman (lists.alioth) data migration from old infra

[Thomas Goirand]

On 12/27/2017 03:29 PM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Hi Alex et al,
> 
> Sorry for the long hiatus between this and my previous messages. I had
> some other things to take care of and to figure out how to proceed
> without stepping on people's toes.
> 
> I had some feedback from DSA that the http redirect and MX record
> changes for lists.alioth.debian.org were possible, and so I'd like to
> try and actually get this done in the next couple of months. I've
> also determined based on feedback that trying to import all alioth
> lists is probably not sensible as many of them are defunct/full of spam
> - instead going for an opt-in approach.
> 
> I summarised the current status at
> <https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/MailingListContinuation>

I still don't understand why you're planning on setting-up Mailman 2 and
not the latest version 3. Can you explain the rationals? Also, there's
other choices of managers, like MLMMJ. Did you consider it as an option?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)