On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote: > Are there any plans to preserve archives of any existing @oo.o mailing > lists? I didn't see a treatment of archives on the planning page: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Mailing+lists >
This was discussed previously. We have Markmail archives of all of the OOo mailing lists going back to 2000, covering 333 lists and 1.6 million posts: http://openoffice.markmail.org/ This is linked to from our mailing list page: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html > Obviously any mailing lists hosted at Apache will use the normal > mail-archive.a.o system, but I was wondering if there's any plan or need for > somehow preserving the past archives of lists. > I don't think we need an archive beyond Markmail. But I have no objections if someone wants to make another copy. > I'd certainly like to review some of the past lists, especially the > marketing/branding and strategy ones. I could imagine that a number of the > developer lists might also be valuable for future reference as well. > Indeed. -Rob > - Shane >
