Hi, On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Emilian Bold <[email protected]> wrote: > ...I assume we will also automatically migrate users? Because if we > only ask a lot of people will not notice this and basically be silently > dropped (for example, people might lurk on [email protected] or just > [email protected])....
Bulk subscriptions are possible with the help of our infra team I suppose. You would need very clear communications on the existing lists however, so that people understand what's going on. Ideally auto-responders on the existing lists which point to an apache.org page that explains the transition. > > Then, once out of incubation, we will migrate again from @ > netbeans.incubator.apache.org to @netbeans.apache.org? > Yes but that's seamless, redirects are automatic. > And perhaps in a few years go back to the proper @netbeans.org mailing > lists? I don't see why. > > Now that I think about it, is there a particular reason we cannot have the > Apache infra serve the existing @netbeans.org mailing lists? > If NetBeans becomes an Apache project it lives at apache.org. The ASF is not just a hosting organization, it's a community of communities who lives out of sponsorshing money and as such branding is important. >> ...1a. Ask the above to use tags and very clear subject lines in their mails > to the unified mailing list. > > I very much doubt people will learn this. A lot of users@ have short > interactions, they will not learn the tagging rule, just pick a mailing > list and go with it.... If they pick the users list I suppose that won't be too bad. > > Also, could we try a staged approach for this migration? We sort the lists > by number or users / activity and start migrating the smallest ones first > and leave the largest last?... I suggest migrating developers first and users later, once the dust settles. -Bertrand
