Mailing list migration procedures

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Aug 3 08:21:17 UTC 2009


On 08/03/2009 05:22 AM, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Rahul Sundaram
> 
>> Have you thought whether a reorganization is desirable while migrating?
> 
> Yes, note the section in the document about renaming lists.  I wasn't
> very verbose in there about why you'd want to do that, maybe I was in
> an earlier draft :). But the words 'fedora' and 'list' should never
> appear in the list name - it's obvious that it's a list from the
> domain name (lists.fp.o), as well as it has to do with Fedora (neither
> of these were true of the lists @redhat.com).
> 
> The two examples that you cited above would be renamed perl-devel and
> java-devel, at least that's what makes sense to me.

In that case a final list of what lists are going to be migration and
what they would be called, long before you initiate the migration would
be very helpful.  Post to fedora advisory board or <eek> fedora-devel
list </eek> to make sure others have a opportunity to chime on it.

Rahul




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