On Oct 19, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Shane Curcuru wrote: >> Note that I disagree with having three lists; I would far prefer to >> start with a single list per NL. > > No problem about this; I was merely envisioning a structure where we had an > "announcements" list (300 subscribers now) and two discussion lists, one for > users (consolidating a few lists, 700 subscribers) and one for volunteers > (consolidating the remaining ones). But it's not imperative for me to start > with 3 lists. > >> Actually, I'm pretty sure we will not be mass-subscribing users. That is >> generally regarded as a very bad idea in Apache projects > > Here the fundamental issue is that we are transferring mailing lists (and > consolidating them in the process); the fact that we will create new lists > instead of reconfiguring the current server is merely a technical preference.
It is NOT merely a technical preference. Currently the ML are within Oracle hosted infrastructure. Whatever ML are created or transferred will be run from within ASF hosted infrastructure. > > I'm against auto-subscribing people to new lists too in general, but I do not > recognize this case as "creation of new mailing lists": we would just be > MOVING mailing lists, in accordance with the old server maintainers, to give > continuity to the project. And losing most of our subscribers in the process > due to (their!) sloppiness would be a huge setback for OpenOffice.org. If there is a legal way to transfer all the subscribers of [email protected] to [email protected] we should consider it. I don't have the time to find this out, but if someone can navigate this part I would support the effort. Regards, Dave > > Regards, > Andrea.
