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[John Poelstra]

Jon Stanley said the following on 07/22/2009 08:34 AM Pacific Time:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Josh Boyer<jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> 3) Is anyone currently working on this and if so, who are the owner(s)?
>> IIRC, Dennis Gilmore was the last "owner".  I have no idea if that is still
>> the case.
> 
> Dennis and I are "joint owners" on this one.  The plan was to "migrate
> all lists", but that blocks on a few things, which haven't been taken
> care of due mainly to lack of time and other, more pressing, issues.
> Add to that when I'm available Dennis doesn't seem to be and vice
> versa :)
> 
> Here's what needs to be done:
> 
> 1) Build frontend SMTP servers.  Currently, collab1 is a single point
> of failure for inbound SMTP (not a gigantic deal, just that mail gets
> queued on the senders system rather than internally to Fedora).
> There's also a scalability issue that we're concerned with.
> 
> 2) Work out new names for lists that don't meet the naming conventions
> we've set forth for lists (most notably, the words 'fedora' and 'list'
> should not appear in the name)
> 
> 3) Work with RHIT to get archives, list members, etc from existing
> infrastructure.
> 
> Honestly, there's not much work to do here - maybe two or three solid
> days of nothing but this.  This honestly sounds like a great
> opportunity for an Infrastructure FAD of a few days - maybe in NYC??
> :)  (I'm partial, obviously......)
> 

Thanks for all the good information.

Is it correct to say that this issue is "closed" from a board 
perspective and the remaining work/issues are the technical 
implementation that belongs to the Infrastructure team?

John