[Aptitude-devel] Reminder: migration of alioth list pkg-osg-devel

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2018-03-14 15:43 GMT+01:00 Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li>:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 03:03:10AM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
>> 2018-03-14 3:02 GMT+01:00 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
>> <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>:
>> > 2018-03-14 0:02 GMT+01:00 Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li>:
>> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 08:32:16AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
>> >>> Hi Manuel,
>> >>>
>> >>> Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
>> >>> > I am admin and user of several lists, some are interesting for me to
>> >>> > keep, others are not.  I could migrate, but I'd like the archive to be
>> >>> > preserved, some of them contain recent history, discussion, design
>> >>> > decision and comments that are interesting to maintain.  I don't think
>> >>> > that most qualify for lists.debian.org, though, and we already decided
>> >>> > to "migrate" aptitude-devel to deity@ (same as apt).
>> >>> >
>> >>> > DO WANT to keep (only for archive purposes):
>> >>> > Aptitude-devel
>> >>>
>> >>> Asked already for that, too, but they refused as I'm not owner of the
>> >>> list -- despite I'm owner/admin of the project the list belongs to.
>> >>>
>> >>> Owner of the list seems to be dburrows who no more has an LDAP
>> >>> account, but still does have an alioth account. And the alioth account
>> >>> is the owner of that list.
>> >>>[...]
>> >
>> > Oh dear, surely this is very annoying for all involved, specially the
>> > people trying to set up the new service (thanks for that!) :)
>> >
>> > So what is that procedure, if I may know?
>> >
>> > I'm mostly interested in preserving the archive, so a single static
>> > website would be enough... the problem is to keep the URL, links and
>> > all that, so I cannot do it myself.
>
> Somebody interested in taking responsibility for a list, if the current
> owner is not available, should announce their intentions on the list
> itself, CCing admin at alioth-lists.debian.net. We will then note your
> request and assuming no objections in a couple of weeks, carry them out.

Thanks Dominic.

So I hereby announce my intention (and Axel Beckert's) to become
owners of aptitude-devel, with the intention to migrate it to the
replacement of Alioth for mailing list services, and so that the
content of this list doesn't get immediately lost.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>