On 5/22/20, Federico Bruni <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you know how can I ask GNU to create a new mailing list?
LilyPond has currently four admins listed on Savannah: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/lilypond/ Han-Wen or David might be your best bet these days. You can refer to this thread: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-12/msg00678.html My advice would be to name your list lilypond-it like Paco did for the Spanish-speaking list, rather than lilypond-user-fr which we’ve been stuck with since forever. (I’m cc-ing him; maybe he’ll have more insights for you.) When your list gets created, of course you’ll need to update Documentation/web/community.itexi, add an announcement to web/news-new.itexi and a link to web/news-headlines.itexi so that it appears on the front page. In case you want to customize your mailing list’s HTML pages like I did, here’s the templates I’ve made up (look at the source code): http://valentin.villenave.net/upload/files/listinfo.html http://valentin.villenave.net/upload/files/subscribe.html http://valentin.villenave.net/upload/files/options.html You can edit the templates for your list at https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/edithtml/lilypond-it (or whatever your list’s name will be). You may also want to edit some of the translated strings in the admin interface; I found that many of these were a bit confusing; again you can compare https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user with https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user-fr Of course, you can also create a "forum" at Nabble afterwards, and add the link to community.itexi (we have many, many inexperienced users who use that for some reason; I never quite understood why). In that case, try to explain clearly to your new Nabble subscribers that they actually need *two* subscriptions: one at Nabble, and one to the actual mailing list. Good luck! Cheers, -- V.
