Misi, Jason and Daniel, Thank you for maintaining the ARSlist!
I don’t know if this will help, but I once wrote an ARS replacement for the ARSlist. It’s was built on ARS 5 or 6, so I’ll volunteer to do the upgrade/rewrite. If you have a ‘spare’ AR Server, this could be a ‘no additional cost’ solution. Note that all subscribers will have Public (no-cost) licenses – but the Submitter field will need to be locked. Of course, this would have all the Use Cases covered. I must admit that I dislike “… the idea of shutting down the List based on … feelings” AND the difficulty I have with the BMC Communities interface. Just another option to consider, Joel Joel Sender * jdsen...@earthlink.net From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 3:55 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ADM: ARSlist Future 2017 ** Hi, To me it also seems like the activity has gone down a lot on the list. Transferring to, GNU Mailman should not be that tough I think. And in addition to that we need to put some archive search capabilities in place (swish-e?). So all in all there will be some hours needed to get this going. I am happy to continue hosting the ARSList on my server, but I think we need to go to an open source solution. Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se (ARSList MVP 2011) Ask the Remedy Licensing Experts (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10/11/12/13) * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy licenses? Save money by optimizing. * RRR|Log - Performance issues or elusive bugs? Analyze your Remedy logs Find these products, and many free tools and utilities, at http://rrr.se September 27, 2017 7:47 AM, "Jason Miller" <jason.mil...@gmail.com <mailto:%22jason%20miller%22%20%3cjason.mil...@gmail.com%3e> > wrote: ** Hello everybody, It is time again to make some decisions regarding the future of the ARSlist. Our LISTSERV (the software ARSlist runs on) license expires in a little over 30 days. Dan, Misi and myself have been discussing where to go from here. We agree with the current (low) volume of posts that (Dan) continuing to pay for the ARSlist platform does not make much sense. Clearly the ARSlist is not providing the value it one was (when it was the only place to discuss Remedy topics). The options for the future at this time appear to be: * Move the ARSlist to a free mailing list platform. * * Say goodbye to the ARSlist and shut it down all together. * Money will come from somewhere to pay the license fee and the ARSlist lives on for at least another year. There is a contingency with the first option. Assuming the platform the List moves to is not a hosted system in the cloud, Misi, who has been graciously hosting ARSlist LISTSERV on his server for the last year, will not be able to make a software switch until after the T3SMAC conference <http://tooltechtrain.com/> in November. If we give Misi a few days to hangout in Vegas after the conference, get home, and setup a new mail list system, we are looking at possibly a few week outage of the ARSlist while things transition. If we find a platform that is hosted and doesn't require shell access to Misi's server then I can work on the transition before the conference. If anybody see additional options please let me know. Also I am open to honest feedback. At heart I know none of us want to see the ARSlist go, it has been here for us for many years. Shutting it down is not something to be taken lightly. However being practical, do we reject the idea of shutting down the List based on our feelings and not so much the value it is providing in 2017? Since this post is really a continuation of a conversation that started over a year ago, I wonder if maybe the time has actually come to retire the ARSlist? Thank you, Jason _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
