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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 02:08:40PM +0100, Alex Muntada wrote:
> Dominic Hargreaves:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Since the main purpose of migrating lists.alioth is to avoid
> uploading half the archive with new Maintainer fields, I guess
> that all lists.alioth addresses mentioned as Maintainer should
> probably be opted-in by default.

That's a good point - agreed.

> There's 312 lists.alioth.debian.org addresses in
> /var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages
> (out of 1386 entries in /var/lib/mailman/lists in alioth).

Dominic.