Dear Peter Rice (BCC'd) & the EMBOSS community, CC: OBF Board
As you may have noticed, the OBF hosted mailman server was having problems late last year: https://news.open-bio.org/2017/11/12/mailing-list-outage-and-public-board-meeting-update/ With server changes made in January, mailman seems to be coping for now. However, right now, any non-member emails received are SILENTLY DISCARDED. The OBF is looking seriously at moving to a paid hosted mailman instance to replace our volunteer administered Amazon hosted mailman server. As part of this, we would need to consolidate or close many of the existing lists: https://news.open-bio.org/2017/12/15/mailing-list-consolidation/ Currently there are five EMBOSS lists, EMBOSS – EMBOSS mailing list (archive) emboss-announce – EMBOSS Announcements (Releases, etc.) (archive) emboss-bug – EMBOSS Bug Reports and Support Requests (private archive) emboss-dev – EMBOSS Development Discussion (Open to all) (archive) emboss-submit – EMBOSS submissions – new packages and apps (private archive) If there are no objections, we will close the emboss-dev list, after migrating its current subscribers to the main emboss list: http://mailman.open-bio.org/pipermail/emboss-dev/ http://mailman.open-bio.org/pipermail/emboss/ We are in the process of similar changes for the other OBF hosted projects, for example I did Biopython last week: http://mailman.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython/2018-January/016339.html We would be happy to leave the announcement list running for now, but it would likely be retired as part of any hosting migration (likewise for all the other OBF project specific announcement lists). The last two lists, emboss-bug and emboss-submit, seem better suited to an issue tracker and GitHub (separately we would like to help EMBOSS' move to GitHub). Thank you, Peter (Speaking here as a representative of the OBF Board, although I have been an occasional EMBOSS contributor too) _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
