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

Sergio Durigan Junior sergiodj at sergiodj.net
Wed Dec 27 18:59:47 UTC 2017


On Wednesday, December 27 2017, Toni Mueller wrote:

> Hi,

Hey Toni,

> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 01:11:10PM -0500, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>> Thanks for doing this!  A question (that may have been answered already,
>> sorry): you mention that this new ml system will be available "for a
>> limited period of a few years".  Do we have a plan to officially support
>> the mailing lists after that, or is it going be each group's
>> responsibility to have its own ml setup in another infra?
>
> I have once written some software to fiddle with the subscription
> database of Mailman2, and I guess that it's not rocket science to write
> some software to migrate to a different infrastructure. I can understand
> quite well if someone wants to avoid the migration work.

Oh, for sure, doing the actual migration is not so hard.  I'm more
concerned about whether each team/group should have its own resources or
if we'll all be able to continue using Debian's infrastructure for
mailing lists after Dominic's VM goes offline.

Thanks,

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